Wednesday, 20th April 2016

There was a decent vis passage first thing with 7 Yellow Wagtails and 18 Tree Pipits flying through, shortly followed by another Osprey and the first Little Terns offshore. An evening walk around the water meadows produced a pair of Mandarins, rare here and a Marsh Harrier.

Mandarins

Offshore

64 Common Scoters east, 4 Red-breasted Mergansers east, 3 Red-throated Divers east, 4 Gannets east, 6,800 Knots west, 1 Arctic Skua east, 8 Sandwich Terns east, 2 Common Terns east, 2 Little Terns east, 1

Guillemot east and 2 Auk sp. east.

Visible Migration

125 Pink-footed Geese north, 1 Little Egret east, 1 Sparrowhawk in off, 1 Osprey north-east, 1 Kestrel in off and landed on a groyne, 1 Whimbrel east, 8 Wood Pigeons east, 7 Carrion Crows north-east, 5 Rooks east, 8 Sand Martins north-east, 17 Swallows north-east, 7 Yellow Wagtails east, 21 Alba Wagtails north, 18 Tree Pipits north, 68 Meadow Pipits north, 59 Goldfinch east, 9 Siskins east, 43 Linnets east and 46 Redpolls east.

 

 Kestrel

 

 Rook

Grounded Migrants 

1 Chiffchaff, 10 Willow Warblers, 2 Blackcaps, 2 Lesser Whitethroats, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Reed Warbler, 1 Redstart and 10 Wheatears.

 

 Wheatears

Others

2 Mandarins, 1 Marsh Harrier, 43 Ringed Plovers, 500 Knot, 95 Sanderlings, 1 Purple Sandpiper, 280 Dunlins, 1 Whimbrel, 115 Black-tailed Godwits and 175 Turnstones.

Ringing

5 Lesser Redpolls.

 

 

 

Lesser Redpoll