27th October

A day of rather low quality, with the continuing brisk northwesterlies doing no favours for the increasingly needy fieldworkers. Overhead passage accounted for all the numbers, with 3900 Wood Pigeons and 1300 Starlings the high totals at the Bill, where 14 Redpolls and 2 Crossbills were as interesting at the variety got. Two Ring Ouzels, 2 Merlins and singles of Cetti's Warbler and Firecrest were scattered about the Bill, with a Water Rail and a Firecrest at Church Ope/East Weare.