15-20 SE wind with almost unbroken cloud cover, then becomming sunny from 0930hrs.Not alot of evidence of night migrants and it became apparent that vis watching may have been more productive from a more coastal location rather than the Nature Reserve office area.
Nature Reserve office vis 0730-0930hrs
Cormorant - 1
Woodpigeon - 14 one flock
Collared Dove - 3 together
Grey Wagtail - 2
alba Wagtail - 28 largest group 9
Meadow Pipit - 32
Starling - 14
Songthrush - 2 high E then grounded
Chaffinch - 41
Siskin - 19 largest flock 10
Linnet - 2 All SE or ESE
Nature Reserve
Starling - 317 SE very early on presumably from a roost site
Chiffchaff - The only evidence of any was 1 singing briefly
Jay - 1 flew from tank farm to Moneyclose lane then later at Red Nab bushes
Moorhen - 1 in flight from observation tower, past reserve office then past the classroom!
Blackbird - One concentration of 10
Songthrush - 3 new-in, flighty birds
Coal Tit - 4
Blue Tit - An irruptive-type flock of 13
Red Nab Bushes
Goldcrest - 2
Bullfinch - 2
Long-tailed Tit - 15
Red Nab/Ocean Edge
Skylark - 7 + 2 south
alba Wagtail - 3 south
Linnet - flock 12
Peregrine - 1
Teal - 1
Shelduck - 118
Bar-tailed Godwit - 120
Knot - 360
Grey Plover - 2
Outfalls
Little Gull - 1 ad
North Harbour Wall 1045-1200hrs
Pink-footed Goose - 6 south
Skylark - 41 south largest groups of 10 and 9
alba Wagtail - 4 south
Meadow Pipit - 27 grounded
Wheatear - 1
Linnet - 4
Shag - juv/1stw roosting on wooden jetty
Med Gull - ad patrolling sea wall
Other/misc
Dogfish A superb specimen being put back to sea by a fisherman
Tom Wilmer
