A better day, more birds than we have had for sometime with a Black Redstart, three Wheatears, two Yellow Wagtails, five Ring Ouzels [four males and a female], five Blackcaps, four Whitethroats, a Lesser Whitethroat, six Chiffchaffs and a Willow Warbler. Overhead there were two Red Kites, two House Martins and a steady trickle of Swallows.
At sea there were 124 Common Scoters, a Bonxie and two Arctic Skuas moving NE.
A walk around the entire area. on a pleasant sunny morning. was a little disappointing as we had very few birds of note apart from four Swallows, a Tree Pipit, a Whitethroat, two Blackcaps, eight Chiffchaffs and a Ring Ouzel.
Phil, Jack.
Only birds of note was a Red Kite over Hope Point and two Grey Partridges in the big field,
Phil, Jack.
A wander around the area for a couple of hours produced very little apart from a Swallow, two Alba Wagtails, three Yellow Wagtails, two Blackcaps and three Chiffchaffs.
Male Brimstone butterfly on the Leas.
Phil, Jack.
I walked around the Paddock and had four Chiffchaffs, a Blackcap, two Swallows and three Yellowhammers before meeting Simon when we had a Whitethroat. After this we met up with Brendan, Richard and Phil but birding was curtailed as a thick sea mist came in.
After a walk through the Paddock, where it appeared that there was little around, we decided to stand at the vis. mig, point and watch for any overhead movement. There seemed to be a steady movement of finches NE and in a hour and a half we had 95 Siskins, 32 Linnets, 382 Chaffinches and three Brambling. Other than finches there were two Swallows, four Sand Martins, three Rock Pipits and at 09:45, the bird of the day, a Short-toed Treecreeper flew into a bush next to us and gave excellent views to all present.
Short-toed Treecreeper (Nigel Jarman)
Phil, Richard, Nigel, Jack.
Very few notable birds moving on the sea this morning apart from three Red-throated Divers, four Brent Geese, two Shelducks, four Common Scoters, four Red-breasted Mergansers, 20 Dunlin and an Arctic Skua. All birds flying upchannel.
There were at least two Harbour Porpoises feeding just offshore.
A wander around the area produced two singing Blackcaps and six Chiffchaffs.
Simon, Jack.
