Monday was spent at Beachy Head with LP and the first decent ‘fall of birds for the site this year. 81 Willow Warbler, 13 Chiffchaff, 1 Whitethroat, 16 Blackcap, 4 Common Redstart, 3 Wheatear, 4 Black Redstart, 4 Fieldfare, 2 Redwing, 3 Ring Ouzel, at least 5 obvious migrant Song Thrush which departed high north with one of the Ouzel, 20 Robin, 1 Brambling, 1 White Wagtail, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Firecrest, 4 Goldcrest, 1 Merlin,and a Greenshank over calling from the murk. 10 Swallow in.
Whilst I was blissfully out of signal on Beachy head, yomping around for kilommetes at a time, A migrant tornado was being stirred up at Walthamstow, see the details here but in brief a load of Little Gulls,yellow Wagtails, some waders and an Osprey had all made appearances. I was slightly late to the party but mopped up the following morning with Avocet, 8 Little Gulls (both long awaited patch ticks for me!) and my first Yellow Wagtails of the year for the patch. I will be out every week day morning in April so expect some updates with similarly poor/grey photography 🙂
PERDIX BIRDER 