Friday 8th August 2014

A stiff easterly breeze & overcast conditions should, in theory, bring us some "eastern promise" - unfortunately it's brought us next to nowt with the site being a bit of a migrant free zone this morning with the highlight in the bushes being 1 willow warbler. Offshore very meagre returns with 12 Teal, 7 Oyks, 3 Whimbrel, 2 Little Tern, 1 Dunlin & 1 Turnstone heading south plus heading north 11 Sandwich Tern, 1 Gannet, 1 Redshank & 1 Common Tern. 2 Little Terns were also feeding in the river mouth. Plenty of birds feeding on the reserve at the moment including 250 Starling, 100+ Linnets, 50+ House Sparrows, 25+ Greenies, 10 Pied Wags & 3 Goldfinch suggesting that there's plenty of food for little birdies on the reserve.