Another excellent
migration day, the highlight`s being four Pomarine Skuas
offshore, 2 showy singing male Wood Warblers and the first Spotted Flycatcher
of the year.
Wood Warbler
Offshore:
4
Shelducks east, 778 Common Scoters east, 6 Red-breasted
Mergansers east, 18 Red-throated Divers east, 26 Gannets east, 4 light morph Pomarine Skuas (2 singles NE early morning & 2 came in late
morning and landed on the sea opposite the tower. These two birds drifted back out
on the receding tide), 4 Arctic Skuas east/north-east, 9 Guillemots east,
10 Auk sp. east, 1 Little Tern east, 11 Sandwich Terns, 334
Arctic Terns east and 39 Kittiwakes east.
Pomarine Skua
Visible
Migration:
15 Whimbrels east, 11 Swifts north-east, 5 Sand Martins
north-east, 270 Swallows north-east, 13 House Martins north-east,
1 Yellow Wagtail east, 4 Tree Pipits north-east, 3 Meadow Pipits north-east, 6
Linnets east, 13 Redpolls east and 14 Goldfinch east.
Grounded Migrants
1 Cuckoo, 2 Wood Warblers, 10 Willow
Warblers, 4
Garden Warblers, 2 Lesser Whitethroats, 5 Whitethroats, 5 Sedge Warblers, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 5 Whinchats, 6 Wheatears, 1
Yellow Wagtail and 3 Lesser Redpolls.
Whinchat (above & below)
Wood Warbler
Others
165
Ringed Plovers, 7 Whimbrels, 17 Turnstones, 130 Sanderlings, 800
Dunlins and 1 Common Sandpiper.
Ringing
2
Long-tailed Tits, 1 Blackcap, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Robin and 1
Greenfinch.
Sedge Warbler
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