18th August
After
a few showers in the morning it was a decent day with moderate SSE winds which
died off in the evening; it was a good day in the field with a few new arrivals
hinting that proper autumn might just be on the way. Birds seen included a Sooty Shearwater off
the Lighthouse, a Heron, a Merlin, 107 Oystercatchers, 495 Golden Plover, a
good 179 Knot (still mostly juveniles), 23 Ruff (again, mostly juveniles), an
excellent arrival of 62+ Black-tailed Godwits,
2 Green Sandpipers, a Wood Sandpiper north over Hooking, a
Greenshank, 3 Sandwich Terns – first ones for ages and finally a few passerines
with 30 Wheatears, 2 Reed Warblers (Scotsha and Holland), a Whitethroat at the
Obs and a Willow Warbler.
Ruff (and Redshank)
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