7th-9th September
Finally the long anticipated Easterly winds and rain arrived dumping a massive amount of common/scarce migrants on the island. With the winds being strong most of the birds concentrated on the West coast. There were however some highlight birds that stole the show away from the high migrant totals.
The previous days Golden Oriole did a tour of the South end of the island on 7th before vanishing and was joined by a one day Turtle Dove that was seen at North Gravity. A Nightjar was present for much of 8th, initially found near T1 it re-located up the West coast. A Great Spotted Woodpecker was also present on 8th, found the airfield dyke the bird, much like the Oriole, did a tour of the South end of the island before making its way to the Surgery on 9th.
The 7th saw the highest count of Wrynecks with seven birds on the island and Garden Warblers with 26, but most of the peak counts unsurprisingly arrived with the warm and sunny weather on 9th where Willow Warblers totalled 153, Redstart climbed to 90 birds and Lesser Whitethroat reached 32. The 9th would also see two Barred Warbler and an Icterine Warbler to round off an astonishingly migrant packed few days.
With a few puffs of Easterly left in the tank we're hopefully of something to really top off what has been a superb few day of birding!
Full day totals below:
7th 8th 9th
TREE PIPIT 11 11 12
ROBIN 1 1 4
REDSTART 46 65 90
WHINCHAT 23 23 20
FIELDFARE 1 1 1
SONG THRUSH 11 18 10
REED WARBLER 2 3 5
ICTERINE WARBLER - - 1
BARRED WARBLER 3 2 2
LESSER WHITETHROAT 16 14 32
WHITETHROAT 5 3 8
GARDEN WARBLER 26 19 25
BLACKCAP 3 10 29
CHIFFCHAFF 12 4 4
WILLOW WARBLER 126 114 153
GOLDCREST 6 4 4
SPOTTED FLYCATCHER 4 4 7
PIED FLYCATCHER 18 26 27
SISKIN 41 70 63
NIGHTJAR - 1 -
GOLDEN ORIOLE 1 - -
TURTLE DOVE - 1 -
GREAT S WOODPECKER - 1 1
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