15th October

Redwings had increased a little with 348, a short-eared owl at Breck is amazingly the first sighting this autumn, and a bluethroat is at Sangar. Finches in the Obs' bird crop consisted 36 linnet, 31 twite and 11 brambling, a willow warbler and a garden warbler were trapped at Holland and other bits included 1 dunnock, 6 robin, 4 lesser whitethroat, 2 blackcap and 8 goldcrest.