Sunday 30 October 2011

30th October 2011

The wind was variable in the Southerly quarter all day, 7 Red Throated Divers, 9 Great Crested Grebes and 60 Common Scoter were observed on the tide and the Brent Goose flock had increased to 105 birds. Waders included 4 Purple Sandpipers, 10000 Knot, 10000 Oystercatcher, 12 Ringed Plover, 35 Curlew, 100 Turnstone and 25 Redshank. Migrants and other passerines included 79 Meadow Pipit, 1 Pied Wagtail, 1 White Wagtail, 13 Goldfinch, 3 Chaffinch, 6 Wren, 4 Dunnocks and 4 Robins. 3 Rock Pipits were present and the Coal Tit remained. Ringed:- 1 Chaffinch, 1 Wren.
(CJW) [943-46]

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