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Wednesday 13th February 2013

11 Siskins south, 2 Skylarks on the reserve & what is presumably yesterdays Fieldfare still with us are today's migrants. Spring migration for Skylarks often starts in mid-Feb but with the cold snap still with us & plenty of snow cover inland it's difficult to know whether these two are spring migrants or refugees from the cold. Looking offshore fairly tedious although 2 Wigeon & a Shelduck went south and 15 Brent flew out to sea from inland. Finally a dead Guillemot was on the tide line that was extremely thin & had presumably starved to death.