Steady lightish winds mainly NNE. Occasional sunshine with showers developing by evening.
Most of the Goldcrests and Chiffchaffs at Heysham Nature Reserve had moved off overnight in the clear, moonlit conditions. Middleton NR was similarly quiet. However, at first light, groups of thrush night migrant, probably Redwing, dropped into the bushes and an hour after sunrise diurnal migration was in evidence.
Vis 0730-1030 NE F3. Clear to the N & W, cloud encroaching from the east.
Grey Wagtail 4
Pink-footed Goose 35
Reed Bunting 9
Lesser Redpoll 8
Meadow Pipit 110
Alba Wagtail 8
Linnet 6
Chaffinch 20
Carrion Crow 5
Jackdaw 7
Swallow 4
Goldfinch 12
Blackbird 1
Kestrel 1
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1
Skylark 4
Heysham Head 0800-1045
Goldcrest 6
Coal Tit 5
Blackcap 1
Stonechat 1 m
Mistle Thrush 1
(was acting like a migrant...
got chased off by a blackbird!)
Vis, mostly tracked 'in-off':
Meadow Pipit 210 mostly E
Skylark 59 mostly E
Swallow 38 E or NE (10+8+6+9+5)
Pink-footed Goose 24 S inland
Siskin 17 mostly SE
Goldfinch 11 SE
alba wag 11 mostly SE
Chaffinch 8 mostly NE
Grey Wagtail 2 SE
Smithy Lane scrub / woodland inland of cafe 1050-1130
Blackbird 22
Goldcrest 5
Chiffchaff 2
Treecreeper 1
(Meadow Pipit passage overhead N/C but increasing to c120 p/h SE)