Generally fewer night migrants today present with a Marsh Harrier heading SW near Belle Tout @ 09.45. and a Merlin was seen in the Hollow. Fewer hirundines moving this morning but reasonable numbers of Alba Wagtails, Linnets and Meadow Pipits moving E during the first two hours of daylight.
Combined totals with birds ringed are shown in brackets:
Grey Heron 3 N over the Hollow
Marsh Harrier 1 SW @ 09.45
Sparrowhawk 1
Common Buzzard 1
Kestrel 4
Merlin 1
Peregrine 1
Great-spotted Woodpecker 1
Swallow c300 E
House Martin 50 E
Meadow Pipit 330 (230 E)
Yellow Wagtail 1 E
Alba Wagtail 82 E
Wren 4
Robin 15
Whinchat 2
Wheatear 4
Grasshopper Warbler 1 Hollow
Common Whitethroat 5
Blackcap 68 (19)
Chiffchaff 37 (1)
Goldcrest 2
Linnet 120 E
Bullfinch 1
Common Blue 1
Female Blackcap in Shooters Bottom.
