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Sunday 19th May 2019

A handful of migrants in the form of 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Wheatear, Firecrest, new Lesser Whitethroat & Yellow Wag. 10 Barnacle Geese went north & 8 Swallow went south. 3 Sanderling were on the beach plus 2 more flying south. Offshore movements almost non-existent. Worth a mention are the first brood of baby Great Tits coming out of their nest hole from the four pairs we have on site. Baby Blackbird being fed by dad out of the nest is also noteworthy as during last years heat and drought the first youngster that the locals managed to rear here was not noted until the end of July. This year we appear to have seven pairs spread across the entire site so here's hoping they can do a bit better.


Least Black Arches is a woodland species that is infrequent here although this one is freshly emerged and probably originates on site.

Ringing: 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Great Tit, 2 Starling, 1 Dunnock, 1 Firecrest, 1 Lesser Whitethroat.