A rather low-key day after the recent excitements with no more than a trickle of expected mid-May migrants on the ground and overhead. The numbers were again overhead, with arriving
Swifts and
Swallows both getting into three figures with
House Martins just getting past 50; the majority of the single figure totals of
Spotted Flycatchers,
Tree Pipits and
Yellow Wagtails also involved birds heading straight through. It was tough going on the ground, with a light scatter of
Reed Warblers, 2
Whinchats and a lone
Grasshopper Warbler the best that could be mustered around the south where the two long-staying Corn Buntings were both still present. Offshore, 3 more passing
Arctic Skuas were of note at the Bill.