A male Firecrest was trapped and ringed this morning. This was the first ringing record for the Obs and is the first to be recorded in the Winter, all previous records have been Spring and Autumn
birds.
Firecrest
Offshore
4 Shelducks east, 26 Common Scoters, 2 Velvet Scoters
west, 17 Red-breasted Mergansers, 6 Red-throated Divers west, 1 Great Crested Grebe west
and 1 Auk sp. west.
Visible Migration
155 Pink-footed Geese south and 12 Starlings
south.
Others
750 Pink-footed Geese, 500 Teal, 1 Gadwall, 5 Goldeneyes,
5 Red-breasted Mergansers, 2 Little Egrets, 1 Peregrine, 60 Ringed Plovers, 250 Sanderlings, 2
Purple Sandpipers, 11 Snipe, 200 Turnstones, 1 Short-eared Owl, 1 Firecrest, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 7
Rock Pipits, 40 Linnets and 9 Twite.
Ringing
1 Goldcrest, 1 Firecrest, 1 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit and 2
Dunnock.
Goldcrest
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