A
skulking Locustella Warbler was flushed from some grass by the seawall this
morning and it
was seen a few times in flight and once well on the ground by Ian's feet! It
turned out to
be the Observatory`s latest ever Grasshopper Warbler but it did give us a scare
for a
while!!
Offshore
1
Shelduck east, 10 Pintails west & 6 south, 106 Common Scoters west, 2 Red-breasted Mergansers
west & 1 east, 2 Red-throated Divers west, 10 Gannets west, 2 Great
Crested Grebes
east & 1 north, 2 Sandwich Terns west, 3 Guillemots, 5 Razorbills and 31 Auk sp. west.
Guillemot
Visible
Migration
1 Snipe south, 10 Golden Plovers south-west, 34 Skylarks south, 1 Grey Wagtail
south, 21
Alba Wagtails south, 306 Meadow Pipits south, 9 Chaffinch south, 2 Greenfinch
south, 17 Linnets south and
12 Goldfinch south.
Meadow Pipit
Grounded
Migrants
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Goldcrests, 2 Coal Tits, 5
Chiffchaffs, 1
Whitethroat, 1 Grasshopper Warbler - the latest ever record for the Obs, 13
Blackbirds and
4 Wheatears.
Wheatear
Others
420 Wigeons, 70 Teal, 4 Pintails, 1 Peregrine, 1 Water Rail, 51 Ringed Plovers, 26
Golden Plovers, 115 Sanderlings, 120 Dunlins, 5 Black-tailed Godwits, 1
Spotted Redshank
and 5 Med. Gulls
Ringing
4 Blue Tits and 2 Great Tits.
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