Thursday 15 October 2009

More mist and Redwings but little diurnal passage

Heysham Obs
Passerine migrants
Redwing - c60 roosting at Middleton, 21 seen after dawn
Fieldfare - 26
Meadow Pipit - 18SE
Chaffinch - 5S
Redpoll agg - 1
Reed Bunting - much fewer than in recent days with just 3 ringed and a maximum of 5

North wall grounded birds (poor visibility)
Meadow Pipit - 15
Rock Pipit - 1
Twite - at least 9
Linnet - at least 34
Twite/Linnet - c8
Med Gull - 2 adults - one Czech-ringed

Ocean Edge foreshore
Wheatear - 1
Meadow Pipit - 13 grounded
House Sparrow - 4 (one male) by Ocean Edge shop, then high to SW

Elsewhere
Long-billed Dowitcher still Cockersands all day