18/04/2010 Bright and warm with very hazy sunshine W 3 0730-1000hrs
A good morning to be out but the hazy skies made watching very difficult.
Very little on the move till after 0845 then Mipits started to come over >N , some very high.
A Collared Dove >N was unusual for this location and it was good to get the first Common Sandpipers of the season.
Movers :-
1 Collared Dove > N
64 Meadow Pipits > N
4 LBB gulls >NW
6 Jackdaws > N
4 Swallows > N
Birds present :-
1pr Tufted Duck
1 Pink Footed Goose
1pr Goldeneye
3 Redshank
2 Common Sandpiper
4 Red Grouse
9 Linnet
1 Kestrel
24 Canada Geese
4 Greylag Geese
+ usual corvids and blogging Mipits.
No Scoter or Wheatear.
BS