5th - 6th August
A
mixed couple of days with generally light winds from the east allowing us to
get out and about as long as we avoided the occasional shower and the
inevitable fog which was always lingering there or thereabouts, causing many
flights to be cancelled; its still fairly quiet birdwise though, as bits
included 4 Herons, up to 490 Golden Plover, 4 Ruff, the first returning
juvenile Knot and Black-tailed Godwit, a Whimbrel, 160 Redshank, 2 Greenshank
over the Obs on the 6th, an adult Common Tern
at Bewan on the 6th, the first Willow Warbler of the autumn trapped at
Holland (a particularly young bird which had hardly started its post juvenile
body moult – obviously hadn’t come far!) and a general build-up of Swallows and
Sand Martins with dispersing Sedge Warblers appearing in odd places.
Juvenile Twite
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