A reasonable amount of passage today. Finch numbers picked up with 137 siskin, 115 lesser redpoll and 262 goldfinch passing south. Woodpigeons and stock doves were passing through in similar numbers, somewhat disturbed by a peregrine and 3 sparrowhawks that were hunting/moving through the site during the morning. Out on the nature reserve there was a snow bunting and a wheatear and our first water rail of the autumn on the Icky Ridge. A couple of late hirundines passed over, 2 swallow and a house martin heading south, though sadly no red-rumped swallows!
Diamond-back is normally one of our commonest immigrants with numbers this autumn well below par.
Birds Ringed: Lesser Redpoll 13, Song Thrush 1.