Wall to wall sunshine!
Woke at 05:00 to pouring rain, in a way I thought great, can
get a lie in but woke again at 05:30 to hear a Chiffchaff singing just outside
the window and it had stopped raining! Out on the Obs garden patio by 06:00 with
a mug of coffee and the garden and surrounding area was heaving with migrants.
Ideal conditions for a fall of migrants, rain at dawn and no
wind. After about 3 hours, the migrants had mostly moved through the lower area
at the bill and moved on up the island so a walk around the top fields was in
order after a brief sea watch.
Still lots of birds in the top fields for most of the day
then back to the Obs for a couple of brief sea watches and a few walks around
the area.
The following is a selected list of species I saw/heard today.
Red-breasted
Merganser – 2 flew overhead,
Red-throated Diver
– 1,
Fulmar – a light
passage on the sea,
Manx Shearwater
– a light passage of c20,
Balearic
Shearwater – 1 flew east,
Gannet – a steady
flow all day,
Sparrowhawk –
1,
Ringed Plover –
1 flyover,
Black-tailed Godwit
– 1 flyover,
Whimbrel – 3,
Common Snipe –
1 flyover,
Great Skua – 3,
Pomarine Skua –
3,
Arctic Skua –
14,
Little Gull –
1,
“Commic” Tern –
40+,
Turtle Dove –
3,
Swift – 100+,
House Martin –
40+,
Sand Martin –
10+,
Swallow –
passage most of day, 500+,
Tree Pipit – 1,
Yellow Wagtail
– 3,
Nightingale –
1 heard singing in a crop of Kale,
Redstart – 20+,
Wheatear –
100+,
Whinchat – 20+,
Garden Warbler
– 10+,
Blackcap – 80+,
Whitethroat –
c80,
Lesser Whitethroat
– 6,
Sedge Warbler –
c15,
Grasshopper
Warbler – 4,
Reed Warbler –
3,
Willow Warbler
– c350,
Chiffchaff –
c150,
Wood Warbler –
3,
Goldcrest – 1,
Spotted Flycatcher
– 1,
Pied Flycatcher
– 2,
Redpoll – 1,
Serin – 1 flyover.
And so ended a really busy and fulfilling day!
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