Friday, 22nd November 2013

For a while now we have been talking about trying to catch Pied Wagtails at a roost site on the peninsular but have never given it a go, until tonight. We cannot catch them at the actual roost, but they overfly one of our net rides en route, so we tried tape luring with great success. We ringed 21 birds and controlled a colour-ringed individual. Details of the colour-ringed bird have been entered onto IPMR and submitted to the BTO and we await with interest to find out where this bird was from.

Offshore

13 Shelducks east, 74 Eiders, 19 Common Scoters west, 4 Red-breasted Mergansers, 2 Red-throated Divers, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Guillemot and 7 Auk sp. west.

Visible Migration

93 Pink-footed Geese south, 3 Skylarks south, 6 Fieldfares south, 5 Redwings south, 3 Meadow Pipits south and 15 Chaffinch south.

Grounded Migrants 

1 Goldcrest, 40 Blackbirds - obvious arrival today, 3 Song Thrushes and 4 Redwings.

 

 Blackbird

Others 

4 Goldeneyes, 15 Red-breasted Mergansers, 1 Little Egret, 1 Merlin, 1 Peregrine, 1 Water Rail, 31 Ringed Plovers, 350 Golden Plovers, 90 Sanderlings, 3 Purple Sandpipers, 300 Dunlins, 43 Black-tailed Godwits, 300 Turnstones, 1 Med. Gull, 6 Stock Doves, 1 Barn Owl, 1 Stonechat, 2 Grey Wagtails and 28 Twite.

 

 Purple Sandpipers and Turnstones

Ringing

1 Blackbird, 1 Song Thrush, 3 Greenfinch, 3 Reed Buntings and 21 Pied Wagtails and 1 control; a colour ringed bird - D235044.

 

 Pied Wagtail