Wednesday, 25 September 2019

Wintersett + VisMig 25.09.19

15 - 19 degrees with 8/8 cloud, occasional drizzle and a light easterly.
Anglers CP VisMig per @Fitzybirder and @grayspeight.
Going south: Hobby 1.  Mistle Thrush 4 + 1 SW.
Going south east:  Meadow Pipit 721 (some south, but, unusually, most SE,  some south or even east into wind, including flocks of 40 and 68!)
Going south west:  Ringed Plover 2 (09.10 hrs + 09.16hrs).  Snipe 4.  Chaffinch 3. Reed Bunting 3.
Going east:  Pink-footed Geese 35 east at 09.36hrs.
Anglers CP: 2 Black Terns were in early morning (later seen at Pugneys).   Caspian Gull 1 adult on lake from 10.15hrs.   Lapwing 560Chiffchaff 13.   Blackcap 1.   Peregrine 1 -  'scope view on Wakefield Cathedral Spire! 
Cold Hiendley Res: Whooper Swan 4.  

2 of the Whooper Swans        CHRes   SDenny
Wigeon drake in eclipse plumage  CHRes   SDenny

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