Another interesting morning at the Bill HERE with highlights for me including 12 Little Gulls, my first Swifts of the year, Barwits on the move again and some steady Swallow passage too. Later in the day the first Poms came through (I wasn't there) and the Barwit and wader passage picked up with a pretty good final log for the day HERE.
Back at the Lodge a Cuckoo was calling and hirundines continued to trickle overhead with a steady trickle of Swallows, 4 House Martins and 1 Sand Martin.
The last week of April and first week of May is always my favourite period of the year and luckily this year we seem to have a period of sustained easterly winds. Kojak is coming over tomorrow night and on Monday Kojak, Ian and I are going to do a big day on the Peninsula with the aim to get 100 species in a day.
Adult and first-summer Little Gulls with Black-headed Gulls
Barwits
Shelducks on the move
Common Scoters
Fulmar- a couple were going overhead and over the land today apparantely something they do every Spring presumably young birds looking for nesting sites
A few new for years in the trap including Vine's Rustic (above), Ruby Tiger and Swallow Prominent
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