Light drizzle, then rain & now blizzard conditions with snow settling. A flock of 5 Mistle Thrush with a single Fieldfare & Redwing is the largest spring flock of Mistle's ever in the observatories history plus our first Redwing sighting of the year. Despite the weather winter thrush's are starting to get on the move back to their breeding grounds. We don't get many spring records of Mistle Thrush & have absolutely no idea where they originate from although it is fantasised that they may be from Eastern & North-eastern Europe where populations are known to be migratory. A flock of 11 Starling (in addition to 2 locals) may well be birds from Europe moving to the coast before heading across the North Sea. Offshore viewing conditions awful.
