The Red-breasted Flycatcher might have been a little sod to see but at times it was extremely vocal, with it favouring the simple (and usually incessant when it did get going) 'squeaky gate' call over the more usual rattle - here's a minute or so of it squeaking continually but only four times interspersing a little rattle:
7th October
Not an especially easy day for rewarding fieldwork in a blustery southwesterly and with a nasty downpour during the morning soaking those who were too far from cover. The Red-breasted Flycatcher remained at the Obs where, despite remaining in the canopy of the same clump of trees pretty well all day, it proved to be remarkably difficult to get any sort of views of; a new Yellow-browed Warbler also showed up at the Obs, whilst 3 or 4 others popped up from time to time either side of Southwell. Chiffchaffs remained numerous everywhere but migrant interest was otherwise rather limited: a decent passage of 775 Linnets, 370 Meadow Pipits, 105 Goldfinches, 55 Pied Wagtails and 22 Skylarks passed overhead at the Bill, but 2 Firecrests and singles of Merlin, Reed Warbler and Spotted Flycatcher there and a Hobby still lingering over Old Hill were as good as it got for other migrants. Despite the promising-looking conditions the sea did no more than continue to tick over, with 850 auks, 82 Kittiwakes, 13 Balearic Shearwaters, 3 Arctic Skuas and a Sooty Shearwater the best off the Bill.
