Filthy weather starting with wet snow, then sleet, then heavy rain plus a fair wind making offshore visibility very poor with nothing noted apart from seagulls & a handful of Cormorant. A British race Songie caught whilst checking out the bird feeders will be one from inland moving to the relatively milder coast.
Ringing: 1 Song Thrush
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Sparrowhawk ringed LBO 24th January 2019 found dead 13 km away at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex 3rd January 2021.
Goldfinch ringed LBO 4th July 2019 found freshly dead 182 km away at Bours, Pas-de-Calais, France 3rd January 2021. Ringed as a youngster here and presumably wintering in Northern France.
Lesser Redpoll ringed LBO 28th September 2020 retrapped 16 km away at Hollesley 4th November 2020.
Goldcrest ringed Westkapelle, Veere, Zealand, The Netherlands 7th November 2020 retrapped 153km away at LBO 9th November 2020. Trapped just two days after ringing in Holland its always good to get a rapid movement across the North Sea.
One doesn't think of Pied Wags coming to bread crumbs in the car parks but when times are hard.
Deluge abated. 136 Cormorant headed out early on. Offshore southbound 4 Shelduck & northbound 3 Red-throated Diver, 2 Common Scoter, Brent & Gannet plus 24 Kitts following the Stenna Britannica. On site single Fieldfare, Redwing & Woodcock.
This glutton is often the nearest gull to the car when one turns up with some bread.
We have migrants in the shape of 2 Fieldfare, Skylark heard flying south plus a new Blacky. 78 Cormorant headed out fishing with 1,246 coming in from the north later. 2 Common Scoter went north & a Great Crested Grebe south. 1,000+ gull following ships including 10 Kitts.
Ringing: 1 Blackbird.
