Migration remained at the lowest of ebbs, with a single
Redwing one of the very few new arrivals on the ground at the Bill; visible passage was barely any better, consisting of just a handful of
Meadow Pipits and
Linnets. In contrast, for a while after dawn the sea was extremely busy with an arrival of 2000
auks and 750
Manx Shearwaters off the Bill - many feeding close inshore amongst the now daily large aggregation of
gulls,
Gannets and
Sandwich Terns; offshore passage consisted of just 8
Red-throated Divers and a lone
Shelduck.
One of six Blackcaps in a garden at Sweethill; what few summer migrants there were at the Bill today looked to be all lingerers that had been around for a while and these Blackcaps may well be more of the same, particularly as they've reverted to feeding on apples rather than gleaning for insects in the emerging blackthorn blossom © Debby Saunders:
