Shame we've not been effusively trained as it is a great morning to go all RSPB about our birds. Nothing rare this morning, but a great spectacle in calm weather:
Overhead ocean edge 0730-0830
Meadow Pipit - c150
alba wagtail - 34
Linnet - 5
Swallow - 9
Grey Wagtail - 2
Wheatear - 4 grounded
Overhead Middleton (not duplicated with above) to about 1015
Meadow Pipit - not on the main flightline - 39 SE
Swallow - 77 SE
House Martin - 3 SE
Carrion Crow - 11 SE
Jackdaw - 9 SE
Pink-footed Goose - 512 S + one flock (H) only
Grey Wagtail - 4-5, one possibly off-passage (1 ringed)
Sparrowhawk - male high and purposeful to SSW
Reed Bunting - 2 SE, possibly others but off-passage birds making this difficult
Skylark - ?one (H)
Waders
Didn't count them all:
Grey Plover - 375 in the sunlight, half in varying degrees of summer plumage - great!
Greenshank - 1 juv
Knot - 2250 (single flock)
Offshore
Sandwich tern - 8 fishing
Inshore outfalls/Red Nab/mudflats
Little Gull - ad & 2nd W & 1st W close views on outfalls
Arctic Tern - ad showing well on outfalls
Kittiwake - 5 juvs and 3 ads as above
Med Gull - 37
Ringing
Four nets set at Middleton produced :
Meadow Pipit - 4 Blackcap - 5 Reed Bunting - 3 Lesser Whitethroat - 1
Grey Wagtail - 1 Chiffchaff - 1 Reed Warbler - 1 Bullfinch - 2
Goldcrest - 1 Great Tit - 5 Blue Tit - 9 Long-tailed Tit - 2 Robin - 2
Blackbird - 1 and Dunnock - 1
