Lovely still afternoon, one of those days when you can hear a pin drop. Airfield: Lots more birds than recent visits, Skylarks everywhere (50+), after barely a handful in past days, Linnets similarly in numbers with a flock of 100-150, with a few Goldfinch mixed in. Robins have arrived with 8 around the runways perimeters. Plenty of Meadow pipits and a few Pied wagtails. 7 Wheatear. 2 Blackbirds and a Song thrush. 100 Starling over towards Marloes. With all these no surprise to see a first Merlin of the autumn. Good mix of waders, 20-30 Golden plover swirling around before dropping out of sight east of the airfield, 8 Snipe, 3 Curlew, single Dunlin by the water trough pools and a single Lapwing in the field with hay bales. Grey heron flying over heading east. Some good looking fields at Kete, again big numbers of Linnet with one flock of 200-300 birds feeding in the last fields by the lighthouse and then in the stubbles. 25 Pied wagtails with the cattle but no Yellows. A Sand martin among the House martins and Swallows. 3 Teal and a family of 4 Moorhen (adults and 2 young) on the irrigation pond and a handful of Chiffchaff in Mill Bay.
