A good day for local scarcities! After a morning seawatching IG nipped
home for a 'refuelling' stop, on leaving the house an alarm calling Swallow made
IG look up and a Hobby flew over heading east.
A dash in the car to the Mount
to hopefully intercept the Hobby produced a cracking singing male Firecrest! The bird was favouring the pines and showed well throughout the day and it was frequently giving bursts of song. This is only the Obs second record of a
singing individual, the first was found in Robins Wood by a youthful IG on the 7th
May 1986.
Firecrest
A band of rain arrived in the late afternoon and a check of the pools
produced a Wood
Sandpiper.
Offshore
75 Common Scoters east, 4 Red-throated Divers east, 1 Fulmar
west, 47 Manx Shearwaters east, 38 Gannets east, 1 Great Crested Grebe west, 1 Guillemot west, 14 Auk sp. east, 1 Little Tern east, 116 Sandwich Terns
west, 9 Arctic Terns east and 1 Kittiwake east.
Visible Migration
3 Whimbrels east, 1 Hobby east, 1 Sand Martin north,
37 Swallows north, 3 House Martins north and 15 Goldfinch east.
Grounded Migrants
1 Singing male Firecrest, 1 Garden Warbler, 1
Whitethroat, 1 Spotted Flycatcher and 3 Wheatears.
Firecrest
Others
90 Ringed Plovers, 7 Whimbrels, 22 Turnstones, 105 Sanderlings,
500 Dunlins, 1 Wood Sandpiper, 4 Swifts, 1 Sand Martin and 12 House
Martins.
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