Viz-Mig

Post date: Mar 08, 2011 9:4:45 PM

Bright cold SE1 0800-0910

Sidestrand

With it being bright and still due to a big old high pressure sitting over us there was only one place to go for an hour this morning,and that was the clifftop for a bit of vis-mig. We're not talking Falsterbo here,but there was enough going on to keep me interested.

Chaffinch 45 E

Siskin 3E

Greenfinch 3E

Cormorant 52W

alba Wagtail 1E

Mipit 1W

There were plenty of corvids,pigeons and even tits moving but I'm sure these were localised birds, especially the tits, with Great, Blue, Coal and Long-tailed all involved, the latter even bottling it moving between isolated hedges, let alone the thought of crossing any water!

Also here a male Stonechat was present,only my second since moving here.

Great Tits

Stonechat

At lunch time I called in at the private lake, where yesterday I had another Whooper Swan (Bewick's wouldn't go a miss now!) No sign of it today but some Redwing picking about in the Beech leaf litter were screaming out for a Black-throated Thrush to be lurking in their midst,but alas no.

Whooper swan

Redwing