Sunday, 29 October 2017

Wintersett + VisMig 29.10.17

9 - 13 degrees with 4/8 cloud and a very cold, moderate northerly
Anglers CP VisMig: 06.30 - 10.30hrs.    Most birds went through in the first couple of hours and then very few moving.
A  Hawfinch flew east over WRes at 07.09hrs followed by a party of  5 going  west  over ACP at  07.23hrs.   1 + 3 Little Egrets dropped onto the shallows  for 10 minutes before leaving north at 07.45hrs.  A Red Kite flew south at 08.30hrs.    15 Whooper Swans flew east at 08.42hrs.
Going south west:  6 Golden Plover.  515 Wood Pigeon. 100 Redwing.  54 Fieldfare.   210 Starling.1 Meadow Pipit.   11 Goldfinch. 
Going east:  A flock of 30 Siskin.
Anglers CP:  24 Goosanders at dawn.  The juvenile male Scaup still present.  Pink-footed Goose 1.   Pochard 158  and Goldeneye 17.   Chiffchaff  1.
Wintersett Res: Brambling 1 over.  A male Cetti's Warbler  and a Water Rail were in the boathouse reeds
Cold Hiendley Res:   Whooper Swan 1 juvenile.
Odonata: A Migrant Hawker  south west bank WRes. 

              Juvenile Whooper Swan                  CHRes     SDenny

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