Although there ought to be a fair bit of late passage to get amongst today proved to less rewarding than anticipated, with a few hours of quiet weather during the morning producing a minor flurry of finches but little else. A
Yellow-browed Warbler at Pennsylvania Castle was most likely a new arrival but grounded migrants were otherwise few and far between; the majority of movement at the Bill was overhead with 135
Chaffinches, 100
Goldfinches, 14
Greenfinches and 2
Bramblings through after dawn, whilst elsewhere 6
Fieldfares passed through at Hamm Beach. Winter fare included a good total of 15
Purple Sandpipers at the Bill, 58
Common Scoter still settled offshore there, a
Knot still at Ferrybridge and 5
Black-necked Grebes, 2
Goosanders, a
Great Northern Diver and an
Eider in Portland Harbour.
Fieldfare and Great Northern Diver overhead at Hamm Beach © Pete Saunders: