20th - 22nd August
Still calm on the 20th
but with some increased cloud cover with the day’s highlight going to a brief
but vocal Spotted Redshank on Brides.
Other birds included 8 Sooty Shearwaters and 9 Manx Shearwaters on a
seawatch in the morning, the first autumnal migrant flock of 10 Wigeon, the Hen
Harrier, Kestrel and 2 Merlins, a Black Redstart still and the 2 Fieldfares
still hanging on in Gue Park.
A nice, flat calm start to the 21st but
the now SE wind rapidly built up to a blazing force 7 by the afternoon but
there was again, little new to mention with the Nightingale appearing in a mist net
at Holland once more. Other bits of
note comprised a Red-throated Diver, 3 Herons, now 15 Wigeon and the Hen
Harrier, Kestrel, 2 Merlin and 7 Ruff still.
A moderate westerly replaced the blasting south-easterly
on the 22nd with the Spotted Redshank reappearing on Kirbest
Myre and then Brides and (presumably) one of the same Roseate Terns popped up again just off
Gue Park. The Hen Harrier, Kestrel and
Peregrine were seen again along with 4 Black-tailed Godwits.
Spotted Redshank Simon Davies
Hen Harrier Simon Davies
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