Lade - mild, cloudy, sw 4 - Another blustery day with the occasional shower early and late on, but still mild. We flogged around the local patch concentrating on any grounded migrants on the Desert where 50 Meadow Pipits, five alba wagtails and 100 Linnets was about the sum total. Hundreds of hirundines were feeding over south lake, mostly House Martins, amongst 500 Canada and 200 Greylags that had just dropped in. There seemed to be more Shovelers present this morning amongst the numerous grebes, Coots, gulls and diving ducks. Several Chiffchaffs and a Lesser Whitethroat were the only warblers noted.
An hour at the fishing boats this afternoon with the regulars resulted in 10 Arctic Skuas, two Balearic Shearwaters and our first two Red-throated Divers of autumn along with the usual Gannets and Sandwich Terns. More shearwaters and skuas went through earlier, plus a Grey Phalarope (DW).
There was no change to the usual waders, egrets, gulls and terns on the bird reserve today with Hanson hide being the most profitable spot.
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