Quite a strenuous walk around the Angle peninsula this morning produced a modest variety of birds. These included 50+ skylarks, 100+ goldfinches, similar numbers of chaffinches and song thrushes, plus smaller numbers of redwing and fieldfare and 20+ linnets and half a dozen reed buntings. Most of these birds were feeding in a weedy arable field with root crops and sheep. There seem to be good numbers of song thrushes along parts of the south Pembs coast at the moment.
Waders included c.60 lapwings and c.50 curlews feeding in grazed pasture at Middlehill (near the Angle road). A flock of at least 800 golden plovers was briefly flying high in the air between South Studdock and North Studdock (viewed from the coast near Guttle Hole). Several stock doves were also feeding in a field near Angle.
Choughs were largely absent along much of the coast this morning but several were observed feeding in sheep-grazed and stubble fields near West Angle Bay.