28th October

It got worse today! The blustery westerly airflow seems to be doing less and less for us every day with, for example, an all-day mist-netting effort in the Obs garden (...only stoic visitors would be that barmy) returning the sum total of just one new bird ringed. A handful of routine finches and the like on the move overhead did include a lone Crossbill, whilst odds and ends from around the Bill area included singles of Little Egret, Merlin and Water Rail; additionally, a single Manx Shearwater passed by on the sea there.