1st-3rd May
It's been a superb few days here with winds swinging into the east and producing good early migrants with at least two species setting earliest spring records. A mixture of drifty conditions and hazy weather seemed to ground migrants en-masse on the 2nd and its been fairly full on birding from then on it. The 1st was not the main event by any stretch but a smattering of Blackcaps, Chiffchaffs, Willow Warblers and a lone Pied Flycatcher were a sign of what would follow the next day. The 2nd started off with a bit of a surprise in the shape of the islands 6th record of Great White Egret feeding in amongst the rocks on the beach behind Gretchen. Incidentally a tanker that had left from Bilbao a few days previous had not long passed the island making for a potentially interesting vagrancy route, but this could of course just be a coincidence, either a superb start to what would be a superb day! A few Lesser Whitethroats milling about and the first Red-backed Shrike of the year comple
