Another decent day with full cloud cover and light rain on a light SW>3 rising to SW>5 p.m. at 14 degrees.
Only wader present today was the long staying Ringed Plover
with yesterdays Dunlin gone. Things were looking quiet until a surprise visitor dropped in in the shape of a drake Common Scoter, the 3rd Scoter to visit in just over a week.
It settled right in the centre of the water right on the cameras range limit and shots from the east shore were poor to say the least. In the afternoon I walked the west bank and got some slightly better images but not what I was after. The bird stayed awake throughout, diving and preening and never got its head down as they usually do before leaving in the evening. It was still present at 1530 hrs as I left but will probably leave tonight.
Hirundines and Swifts were moving in the afternoon in very dark clouds whilst just 4 juv Wheatear could be found.
Visible Migration
1 drake Common Scoter........blogging
4 juv Wheatear......................blogging
1 Ringed Plover...................blogging
29 Swift..............................>SW
14 Swallow........................>SW
2 House Martin..................>SW
Present
12 LBB gull
1 Herring gull
+ usual sp.
BS