Friday, 10th March 2017

The wind swung around to the south and an overnight band of rain coming in over the Irish sea dropped the first Wheatear of the year in.

Wheatear

Offshore 
4 Shelducks east, 18 Common Scoters west, 8 Red-breasted Mergansers, 3 Red-throated Divers east and 1 Great Crested Grebe east.

Visible Migration
7 Whooper Swans north, 10 Grey Wagtails east, 57 Alba Wagtails east/north-east, 124 Meadow Pipits east/north-east, 7 Goldfinch east, 12 Siskins east & 2 in off and 3 Linnets east.

Grounded Migrants 
7 Goldcrests, 4 Wrens, 1 Redwing, 1 Wheatear - a male at the point just after dawn and 2 Siskins.

Others
100 Wigeons, 5 Goldeneyes, 1 Red-breasted Merganser, 9 Grey Plovers, 25 Ringed Plovers, 315 Black-tailed Godwits, 160 Turnstones, 72 Sanderlings, 55 Dunlins, 1 Med. Gull, 1 Iceland Gull, 1 Glaucous Gull, 1 Peregrine, 2 Cetti's Warblers and 1 Rock Pipit.
 
 Black-tailed Godwits

Goldeneye

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