Weekend

Been a fairly quiet weekend doing family stuff but managed to get in a short session on the ferry and tramway yesterday and a good morning garden session before spending the day at the Weald and Downland Museum today.

Birding highlights included 3 Avocet on Ferry yesterday (been fairly thin on the ground round here in recent weeks) and an interesting Rock Pipit and today the garden birding was pretty good with Grey Plover a garden tick, over 3000 Woodpigeon going over, my first 5 Redwings and 2 Fieldfare of the autumn, a couple of Mistle Thrush and a few Song Thrush, the 15 or so Redpolls are still in the garden and overall there were 42 species of over 3400 individuals HERE.

The moths have been pretty quiet with the temperature down to 6 C last night but still getting the odd NFY. We have a period of quite a significant southerly airflow from Wednesday this week so that could be very interesting for moths and late autumn vagrants like Pallid Swift. 

Avocets on Ferry

Cattle Egrets at Marsh Farm 

Woodpigeons on the move (above), meanwhile they are still breeding in the garden (below)

Had this Rock/Water Pipit come off Yeoman's Field. Looked like the outer-tail feathers were white but there was no sign of any supercilium on other photos so presumably a littoralis Rock Pipit. More photos and sound recordings HERE

Lesser Redpoll in the garden 

Feathered Ranaculus- NFY

Flame Brocade- always impressed to see these 

Dark Chestnut 

 

A couple of recordings from this morning- Grey Plover going over and Redpolls in the garden