With dawn breaking to the sight of yesterday's blanket of fog still hanging low over the island it could easily have been assumed that there would be little in the way of new arrivals to get out of bed for but such thoughts were quickly dispelled when the first few checks of the Obs garden mist-nets revealed a steady throughput of grounded migrants. For the first time this spring Willow Warblers were represented in greater numbers than Chiffchaffs with 50 and 30 respectively logged in the Bill area, where there were also 10 Blackcaps, 2 new Firecrests (with an additional 5 lingerers also still present) and a single Redwing. The latter half of the morning saw the fog lifting which heralded an impressive pulse of overhead passage that included the year's first Hawfinch among a varied selection of 784 Meadow Pipits, 152 Linnets, 49 Goldfinches, 21 Sand Martins, 11 Chaffinch, 8 Swallows, 3 Greenfinch and 2 Redwing heading north along West Cliffs. This flyway came to the fore again towards the end of the afternoon when the day's highlight, a Dotterel, was found settled in an unassuming horse paddock at Wallsend. Elsewhere, both the Hoopoe at Weston and the Blue-headed Wagtail at Reap Lane lingered on for their second and fourth consecutive days.
