The island received excellent coverage today with 15 birders joining today’s 8PM bird log in the Tavern. Hirundine passage began around midday and gradually built momentum through the afternoon. Counts saw birds moving north along a broad front totalling 17 Swift, 271 Swallow, 344 House Martin. The increased coverage also ensured numerous highest monthly counts were broken, including 61 Shag across the coast, 22 Raven (fledged young at Benjamin’s Chair, Middle Park and Long Roost), 75 Starling busily feeding young, five Spotted Flycatcher and 4 Willow Warbler across Millcombe and Quarter Wall Copse, 91 Wheatear and 13 Rock Pipit. A Ringed Plover was heard over Quarter Wall and two Collared Dove braved the island, including a bold individual settling at the North End, dangerously close to numerous Peregrine territories. A single male Teal remained on Pondsbury, along with the Purple Heron and second calendar-year Cormorant. The second Song Thrush continued for a second day, but no sign of a mate for the long-staying Millcombe male and the Hooded Crow was logged in Tillage Field early morning.
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| Hooded Crow, Tillage Field © Richard Campey |
Contributors: Joe Parker, Luke Marriner, Chris & Carol Baillie, Richard Campey, Tim Jones, Tim Davis, Tony & Ann Taylor, Rich & Rebecca Taylor, Mary Cadogon, Geoff Oliver, Dennis Weir, Eamon O'Donnell.
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