Adult Redwing blackberried at Middleton this am. Thanks JeanHeysham Obs
*** Go back a couple of days for some comparative Robin pics
Overnight
Lots of Redwing on the move over Heysham (per Malcolm)
Vis mig HNR 0730ish to 1030ish
Redwing - 1,206 SW, then turned about Red Nab and recorded flying E over Middleton IE and presumably some of these picked up still heading east by Eddy overlooking Lancaster. 90% between 0745 and 0835
Chaffinch - 31 SW
Starling - 326, mainly SW
Goldfinch - 4 S
Meadow Pipit - one circling around high up
alba Wagtail - 7 SW
Greenfinch - 7 SW
Song Thrush - c10, grounded from height then heading high inland in the usual manner
Coal Tit - noisy singleton S
Rook - 2 SW, then u-turned NE
Fieldfare & Mistle Thrush - NONE
Vis mig Middleton IE (almost all the same Redwing as above?)
Redwing - 999 east!
Reed Bunting - minimum 13 (9 ringed, no retraps)
alba Wagtail - 2
Song Thrush - 2
Woodpigeon - 11
Meadow Pipit - 16
Fieldfare - definitely heard with first lot of Redwing
Linnet - 2
Carrion Crow - 1
Chaffinch - 1
Snipe - 6 flew in from the north & landed
Starling - just 3
Grey Wagtail - 3 birds but all thought to be blogging
Grounded
Blackbird - 20-30 reserve, 20+ Middleton
Stonechat - female Middleton
Goldcrest - one Middleton
Chiffchaff - one ringed Middleton
Supremely 'dead' by HNR office e.g. yet again no Goldcrest or evidence of migrant Robins.
North harbour wall
Med Gull - Czech-ringed adult
Meadow Pipit - 17 on the mound
Rock Pipit - one mound
Linnet - c8
Guillemot - 2 in harbour still
Ocean Edge foreshore
Med Gull - one ad (different to above)
Meadow Pipit - 17 - apparently same birds as mound!
Ringing
9 Reed Bunting, one Chiffchaff & 3 Redwing ringed Middleton in shorteneed session and just the one Blackbird at HNR
Elsewhere
Long-billed Dowitcher juv still on foreshore near Lighthouse Cottage Cockersands (found late yesterday). Please dont block road to Crook Farm.
