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Thursday 19th August 2021


First site record of Radford's Flame Shoulder and looking at the state of it, it's had a long flight to get here!

 Largely overcast through the morning but it [surprisingly] stayed dry and the WNW stayed light; southerly passage comprised 9 Teal, 24 Oystercatchers, a Knot, a Hobby out at sea, 7 Common Sandpipers, 5 Curlew, a Turnstone, 2 Ringed Plover, a Dunlin, a Grey Plover, 4 Sand Martins and 13 Swallows.

Also of note were 140 Common Terns and 40 Sandwich Terns leaving the river at first light, a Spotted Flycatcher caught a dawn, 4 Willow Warblers, 3 Yellow Wagtails and 2 Wheatears.

Ringing: Spotted Flycatcher 1, Robin 1, Dunnock 1, Linnet 1