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Thursday 17th November 2011

Pretty standard sort of morning for this time of the year with a small arrival of new Blackies, Songies & finch's. A Redshank was heard calling pre-dawn and a Lapwing was on the reserve early on only to be flushed by a dog walker. At least 1 Snow Bunt is still with us as are the lingering Brambling, Gold & Firecrest. Overhead migration has just about finished for the autumn with offshore movement also fairly poor, the highlights being a drake Eider, a handful of Common Scoter plus 3 Greylags going north (we don't get many Greylags at this time of the year with speculation that they might be wild ones rather than part of the feral population living just inland of us).