The continuing unseasonable heat was verging on getting uncomfortable at times today, with the ever-freshening easterly scarcely taking the edge off it; maybe as a result, the quality of the birding took a dip with far fewer grounded migrants than in recent days. At least two
Wrynecks remained at the Bill but the best of the migrant interest was provided by a
Honey Buzzard that lingered for a while at Verne Common. Aside from another good spread of
Wheatears on the ground, a steady throughput of
Swallows overhead and the beginnings of
Meadow Pipit passage, routine migrant interest involved variety rather than numbers. The sea again had its moments, with 29
Balearic Shearwaters through off the Bill where visitors also reported several
Black Terns and
Little Gulls offshore.
The Bill Quarry Wryneck exhibition continued © Mike Trew: