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Friday 8th May 2015


During the day, a covering of heavy cloud and a south south west wind produced several migrants at the observatory. A nice selection, albeit a little quiet in the bushes. 

Migrants today comprised of 8 Common Whitethroat, 7 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 16 Wheatear, 4 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Siskin and 13 Goldfinch. Several corvids were on the move this morning with 2 Rook and 6 Jackdaw. 4 Whimbrel, 1 Common Tern and 1 Little Tern were the only notable movements offshore. A decent movement of hirundines throughout the morning with 131 Swallow south and 7 north and 2 Sand Martin south. 

Still a scattering of Wheatears around on the nature reserve, predominantly being female birds at the moment with this Greenland race bird, pictured above. 

This rather intriguing looking Pale Prominent found it's way into one of our moth traps this morning. 


Ringing: 9 birds ringed during the morning including 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Goldfinch,  1 Willow Warbler, 1 Chaffinch, 1 Blue Tit and 1 Wheatear.