A decent morning both weather wise and bird wise with a cool E>4, low cloud with slight mist and drizzle.
Birds were moving well until 0800 when the skies started to brighten slightly.
A drake Common Scoter was on the water though as usual remained way out in the centre along with a female Tufted duck.
DJSs Whinchat was briefly on the wall by the farm and a real surprise in the same area was a Green Woodpecker on a fence post which unfortunately was too quick for me with the camera as it saw me as soon as I saw it, so it quickly headed >E low over the moor between the turbines.
Vis Mig
16 Snipe.........................>E
1 Cormorant..................>E
7 Canada geese .............>E
380 Meadow Pipits.......>S
32 Swallow...................>SW
2 Wheatear.....................Blogging
1 Whinchat....................Blogging
1 Green Woodpecker ...Blogging then >E
Present
1f Tufted
1m Common Scoter
11 Canada geese
sev Red Grouse
1 Kestrel
All last weeks Meadow Pipits now gone.
BS