11th April

The morning produced similarly small numbers of common migrants as recent days, with a collared dove, 4 woodpigeon, a chaffinch and 4 goldcrest at Holland, plus 3 willow warbler and 5 chiffchaff elsewhere, but the day became much more exciting when an immature white-tailed eagle appeared over Hooking. The bird toured the island during the early afternoon, and fitted with both a transmitter and wing tags is surely from the re-introduction scheme in East Scotland (white tags on both wings with what looks like the number 7 on each). Other migrants today included 2 rooks, 6 sandwich tern, 34 fieldfare, 19 wheatear, a robin and a swallow.