Tuesday, 8 October 2019

Wintersett + VisMig - Pomarine Skua 08.10.19

11 - 15 degrees with 5/8 cloud and a light south westerly.
Anglers CP VisMig:per @Fitztbirder  07.10 - 12.10hrs.
A good number of Redwing moving from dawn, but had all but dried up by 09.00, when high flocks of Pink-footed Geese started moving east.  We ended up with a record count in 11 skeins! Undoubted highlight though was a juvenile Pomarine Skua that went north at 10.20 - (3rd Wintersett record, the others being in 1993 and 1989). Almost as unexpected was a covey of nine Grey Partridge that noisily u-turned past the watch point and flew back to nearby fields (Only second record for a vismig watch, I think!)
Pomarine Skua - 1 juvenile went north at 10.20hrs.   
Pink-footed Goose:  A record count of 1545 in 11 skeins!
Going south: Redwing  1352Skylark 18.  Swallow 11.  House Martin 2.  Song Thrush 7.  Mistle Thrush 2.  alba Wagtail 43.  Meadow Pipit 53.  Linnet 32.  Goldfinch 24. Reed Bunting 4.  Siskin 4 + 2 west.
Going west: Chaffinch 1 
Going north east:  Jay 4, very high.
Anglers CP:  Merlin 1.  Rock Pipit still present north bank per @Croftonbirder. 
Wintersett Res: A Lesser Whitethroat was in the boathouse hedge. 

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