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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