With a slight improvement in the weather, e.g. lighter NW winds I was tempted out, in the hope of a repetition of 4th Nov 1995 when we recorded four Pallas's Warblers! I recall seeing only one chiffchaff on that day so in that respect alone today was better with five Chiffchaffs. Two Blackcaps added to the warbler count and the crests contributed eight Gold and two Fire.
There was some decent overhead movement after the early morning rain cleared with at least 190 Siskins going north in the first hour. A Snow Bunting also flew North. The first Woodcock of the autumn was recorded, flushed from the cliff top near Hope Point. It flew into the Empty Wood.
A Woodlark was flushed from the "rare bunting" field ( a field that has failed to produced a single rare bunting but has hosted up to five wintering Woodlarks in the past) and may well have settle back down.
Still not too late for a Pallas's but some improvement in the winds needs to happen first
Brendan
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