The American Golden Plover still at Jury's Gap today
American Golden Plover with European Golden Plovers
Spotted Flycatchers at the Long Pits
Today was day of many 1,000s of Hirundines moving through The Peninsula and out to sea, it is always a brilliant spectacle watching them sweep across the shingle then out to sea, towards the continent then Africa. The land was generally quiet though there was a Pied Flycatcher and a Redstart in The Moat, a scattering of Wheatears and Whinchats, in The Desert and East of Long Pits, the bushes held Blackcaps, Willow Warblers and Chiffchaffs. The reserve is still very quiet though I'm sure in next few days it will pick up.
A rubbish pic of a Swift only because fit is probably the last on I'll see this year
A couple of 1,000s of Sand Martins over the peninsula today
One of the 1,000s of Swallows leaving the peninsula today
Wheatears in The Desert
A Whinchat in The Desert today
A Hummingbird Hawk-moth in my garden today
A fantastic hirundine migration spectacle.
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