A bright, red sunrise morning with a stiff SW>4 but clouded over by 0700hrs and the wind increasing.
Leeshaw was again quiet on the water and shore line but plenty vis mig from the start with Meadow Pipits and Swallow piling through ahead of the coming weather front.
Vis Mig
230 Swallows.....................................>S
182 Meadow Pipits...........................>S with several blogging as the wind increased
3 Snipe............................................>W
2 Jays.............................................>W
7 Alba Wagtails..............................>W with around 8 bloggers
1 Gt Spotted Woodpecker ...........>W very high
Present
1 Ringed Plover
2 Golden Plover
+ usual sp.
Ogden held around 150 Black Headed gulls on the water + 1 Cormorant and the usual Mallards with Willow Warblers still around passerine alley but no Goldcrest although by now the wind had increased making it hard to pick birds out.
By the time I got to Soil Hill watchpoint the wind had increased to SSW> 7 leaving several Meadow Pipits blogging in the goose field along with one distant Wheatear on the wall.
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