Light South Easterly winds with the addition of showers and low cloud made for a decent morning. The first notable birds were two male Ring Ouzels that dropped out of the sky onto the cliff face from high up, picked up whilst trying to locate unseen calling Redwings.
Redwing too were moving and a flock of 55 were in tree tops in the valley whilst 22 flew over with a Blackbird early on.
2 Black Redstarts, a Woodcock, c350 Chaffinches, 3 Brambling, 2 White Wagtails were also tallied during the morning. Other birders out and about locally had an Iceland Gull, 7 White Fronted Geese , a Hawfinch, 2 early Tree pipits and 2 Lovely Wheatears (the latter of which I twitched! thanks to Simon & Javi). so a fairly good day to be out.
Another 2 Black Redstarts the day previous aswell as a Flock of Starling approaching 1,000 birds which I never really see here.
PERDIX BIRDER 