A good late October both for birds and weather once the rain passed through early morning. A total of 80 species were recorded, with the highlight almost the last bird of the day, a Barred Warbler found in the bushes at the eastern end of the Buffer Zone. Other grounded migrants included seven Chiffchaff, three Goldcrest, a Blackcap and a Bullfinch. Overhead 2,627 Wood Pigeon, 483 Jackdaw, 188 Starling, 57 Skylark, 54 Chaffinch, 16 Rook, eight Stock Dove, seven Siskin and a late Swallow.
Counts from the estuary included a new 2021 peak of 573 Black-tailed Godwit, 400 Wigeon, 400 Dunlin, 195 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 109 Turnstone, 90 Curlew, 80 Teal, 35 Ringed Plover, 23 Shelduck, 20 Bar-tailed Godwit, 13 Pintail, eight Greenshank, six Sanderling, six Great-crested Grebe, four Red-breasted Merganser, three Mediterranean Gull, a Little Grebe and a Cattle Egret.
Offshore 2022 Kittiwake S between 07:35 and 08:20 with 16 Gannet and five Common Scoter but it was quiet for the rest of the day. Elsewhere the Cetti's Warbler was at the Main Pond and a Jay and a Buzzard were in the bushes.
Wildlife News: A relative abundance of insects still on the wing with Red Admiral, Large White, Speckled Wood and an unexpected third brood Common Blue, a dozen Common Darter and two Migrant Hawker, an Ivy Bee, and several Buff-tailed Bumblebee and Common Carder Bee. At least 10 hoverflies were also on the wing including Batman Hoverfly Myathropa florea and the migrant Common Spotted Field Syrph Eupeodes luniger.
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