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Sunday 22nd April 2018


Another Great-spot turned up in the bright sunshine early on. More summer visitors are slowly trickling in including 7 Lesser Whitethroat, 5 Whitethroat, 5 Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff, 3 Wheatear & 2 Willow Warbler. Also worth a mention are 33 Goldfinch and 5 Swallow south with 2 Rook heading south before chickening out and going back north. A Sparrowhawk did the rounds with waders on the move represented by 30+ Curlew heading north at vast height plus a total of 16 Whimbrel coming & going.

Sunny weather has brought the Lizards out to play.

10 birds ringed: 4 Blackcap, 2 Willow Warbler, 1 Blue Tit, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Wren.