Saturday 31 October 2015

Wintersett + VisMig + Gull Roosts 31.10.15

A very mild 10 - 16°C.  Clear at dawn. followed by  cloud and mist, then hazy sun from mid morning. Sunshine with scattered cloud this afternoon. 
Anglers CP Vis Mig.  07.30 - 12.10hrs: At last!  A good number of thrushes moving through.
Going south - A Rock Pipit at 10.15hrs.   Fieldfare 1268,  Redwing 477,  Song Thrush 3, Wood Pigeon 240,  Brambling 6, Meadow Pipit 17,  Linnet 12,  Skylark 28 and Common Buzzard 1 
Going west: Starling 250.
Wintersett Res: Shoveler 10 and  Goldeneye 10  + 13 ACP . 
Anglers CP:  Red-crested Pochard 1♂,  Golden Plover 15 over,  Lapwing 220,   Snipe 16 and Water Rail 2.  A Short eared Owl  flew through, being mobbed by Black-headed Gulls at 15.40hrs and left west.
34 birds were ringed this morning - 31 Lesser Redpoll,  2 Goldcrest and 1 Long-tailed Tit.  A Chiffchaff was retrapped.  
Gull Roost ACP:  150 Lesser Black-backed Gull and  25 Herring Gull.  Psycho the adult Yellow-legged Gull was on the small raft.
Gull Roost WRes: A first winter Mediterranean Gull,  5 Herring Gull, 217 Lesser Black-backed Gull and 6500 Black-headed Gull
Other critters: Migrant Hawker 3. 

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