Wednesday 24 October 2012

Skomer

A pretty amazing morning's birding - loads of thrushes dropping in briefly from the North & heading off east towards the mainland - 1300 Redwings, 50 Song Thrushes, 240 Blackbirds & 24 Fieldfares. Loads of Chaffinches too but loads missed as well, saw about 750 but only 1 Brambling.

A new Yellow-browed Warbler was in South Valley, 8 Chiffchaffs (The one we think is a Sibe was probably seen briefly), 12 Blackcaps, 2 Jack Snipe, 1 Woodcock, a Redstart, the first Black Redstart of the autumn & a Lapland Bunting went over