A few migrants!

Around the trapping area this morning 2 Tree Pipits, 10 Wheatears, 50+ Whitethroats, 20+ Lesser Whitethroats, 10+ Willow Warblers and a Blackcap among a large flock of Great and Blue Tits.

The Patch was very quiet when I visited it. 4 Black Terns flew west early morning per AJG.

There was little change at the ARC where 4 Wood Sandpipers, 3 Common Sandpipers, 68 Golden Plovers, 4+ Garganey, a Black-necked Grebe are all still residing here, 9 Black-tailed Godwits dropped in briefly. 

 Willow Warbler after a bath

At Dengemarsh and the Gully another 5 Wheatears and several each of Whitethroat and Willow

Warbler, also 20+ Yellow Wagtails, 2+ Great White Egrets there.

14.00-15.30 from the fishing boats with AJG:
Gannet: 9W
Osprey: 1 out
Kittwake: 5W
Sandwich Tern: 206W
Common Tern: 130W
Sand Martin: 3 out
Swallow: 2 out
Harbour Porpoise: 5+
Common Seal: 1

 Late afternoon at Galloways a Whinchat, 4 more Wheatears, a Sedge Warbler and several more Common Whitethroats, Willow Warblers and Stonechats. Galloways will be open for the next 3 days.

My first Whinchat of the Autumn at Galloways

The sward at Scotney was covered in Greylags, Canada, Barnacle and Egyptian Geese, also a few more Yellow Wagtails.