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A period of changeable weather down here on the Scillies has produced a mixture of new birds and lots of visiting midlands birders with a fair sprinkling from Northants!
The Yellow-browed Warblers are gathering in numbers now and other interesting migrants that we have caught up with include Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Barred Warbler, Tawny Pipit, a putative Wilson's Snipe, Cattle Egret and plenty of others.
Some ringing on St Mary's yesterday produced a reasonable catch finishing with a Merlin in the net!
A pelagic trip today was quieter than last week but there were a fair number of Storm Petrels, Puffins, a Purple Sandpiper and a few each of Sooty and Manx Shearwater. The highlight though was an adult Pomarine Skua right over our boat!
Back in the county today and Eric was again at Thrapston Pits and saw his first Redwing of the autumn, a Blackcap, twelve Siskins, a few Chiffchaffs and Cetti's Warblers and an adult Yellow-legged Gull.
A very busy ringing session at Linford Lakes, Milton Keynes on Sunday saw a small team process 150 birds made up of 67 Blue Tits, 41 Great Tits, 6 Robins, 5 Dunnocks, 9 Wrens, a Blackbird, 3 Redwings, 4 Blackcaps, a Song Thrush, 4 Greenfinches, a Cetti's Warbler, 2 Meadow Pipits, 2 Goldcrests, a Chiffchaff and 3 Goldfinches.
Regards
Neil M
A period of changeable weather down here on the Scillies has produced a mixture of new birds and lots of visiting midlands birders with a fair sprinkling from Northants!
The Yellow-browed Warblers are gathering in numbers now and other interesting migrants that we have caught up with include Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Barred Warbler, Tawny Pipit, a putative Wilson's Snipe, Cattle Egret and plenty of others.
Some ringing on St Mary's yesterday produced a reasonable catch finishing with a Merlin in the net!
A pelagic trip today was quieter than last week but there were a fair number of Storm Petrels, Puffins, a Purple Sandpiper and a few each of Sooty and Manx Shearwater. The highlight though was an adult Pomarine Skua right over our boat!
Back in the county today and Eric was again at Thrapston Pits and saw his first Redwing of the autumn, a Blackcap, twelve Siskins, a few Chiffchaffs and Cetti's Warblers and an adult Yellow-legged Gull.
A very busy ringing session at Linford Lakes, Milton Keynes on Sunday saw a small team process 150 birds made up of 67 Blue Tits, 41 Great Tits, 6 Robins, 5 Dunnocks, 9 Wrens, a Blackbird, 3 Redwings, 4 Blackcaps, a Song Thrush, 4 Greenfinches, a Cetti's Warbler, 2 Meadow Pipits, 2 Goldcrests, a Chiffchaff and 3 Goldfinches.
Regards
Neil M
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| Merlin in the hand! |
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| Pomarine Skua, an adult with 'spoons'! |
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