Numbers remained hard to come by on a breezier than expected day although compensation came with a
Marsh Warbler turning up in the mist-nets at Culverwell at dawn. Sadly, this early excitement wasn't the harbinger of good things to come as common migrant tally remained stubbornly low: there were a trickle of
Yellow Wagtails and
Tree Pipits overhead but on the ground only
Wheatear and
Whitethroat managed double figure totals at the Bill, where 2 departing
Ospreys overhead and singles of
Pied Flycatcher and
Firecrest on the ground
were the only worthwhile oddities; elsewhere, a
Serin at Coombefield was a real oddity for this time of year (...we're not sure that there are any previous records for the month of August). The sea continued to tick over although conspicuously less busily than yesterday, with 101
Kittiwakes, 80
Manx Shearwaters, 19
Balearic Shearwaters, 2
Arctic Skuas and a
Yellow-legged Gull the best of the totals from the Bill. The morning's Ferrybridge wader tally included 140
Ringed Plover, 19
Turnstones, 3
Sanderlings and singles of
Whimbrel,
Redshank and
Common Sandpiper.
We're running late this evening so we'll have to save the extra details on the Marsh Warbler until tomorrow; in the meanwhile a few phone photos of it:
