0800- 1030 hrs Vis Migging at Ogden in a light wind low down on the prom but strong at my watch point and increasing with several blustery showers badly effecting bird movement.
An early walk before setting up at my watch point found a good sized tit flock feeding and moving fast through the trees with 2 Treecreepers, 15 Goldcrest and several of the 4 common tit species. Must be a Yellow Browed Warbler somewhere in there with the number thats in the country just now.
Lots of Mistle Thrush and Blackbirds in the berry trees but only 3 fly over Redwings today.
Up to Fly Flatts late afternoon in atrocious conditions though not as windy as yesterday with a SW>5 bringing heavy rain and drizzle horizontally over the water with very murky visibility until fog stopped play at 1530 hrs.
Very little to see today with 5 LBB gulls flying through low over the water, stopping off briefly to freshen up, whilst 2 Stonechat were around the boat yard area but very elusive in the conditions. Another watch full of expectancy but maybe next time, as HC and me were saying on the phone this morning, having a moan about the conditions, if you don,t get out there and stick it out you,ll get nothing for certain. With another 4 days at least of similar weather forecast we may be eating our words by the middle of next week and next week is the peak week of the autumn vis mig season.
Ogden Vis Mig
3 Redwing.............................>SW
5 Alba Wagtail......................>SW
37 Mipits..............................>S
91 Woodpigs........................>SW
46 Starling...........................>NW
23 Chaffinch.......................>SW
8 Siskin...............................>SW
31 Goldfinch......................>SW ...................possibly locals.
Ogden present
4 Jay
5 Common gull
18 BH gull
1 Green Woodpecker
8 Mistle Thrush
7 Blackbird
Tit flock with 2 Treecreepers, at least 15 Goldcrest and 4 common species of Tits
Fly Flatts
5 LBB gull
1pr Stonechat
3 Mipits
+ usual corvids.
BS