Monday 10th March 2025

 

Merlin is a decent spring bird here although few other migrants including single Redwing & new Blackbird. A Canada Goose floated past, Jay visited from probably not to far away & Rock Pipit still with us.

Ringing: 1 Blackbird, 1 Goldfinch, 1 Redwing.

Sunday 9th March 2025

 

380 Cormorant went out fishing. 3 Jackdaw & a Barnacle Goose flew south. Migrants almost non-existent included single Mipit, Siskin & the first Grey Wagtail of the year. Offshore northbound 2 Great Crested Grebe & Red-throated Diver with southbound a Red-throat. Rock Pipit still here.

Ringing: 1 Dunnock.

Saturday 8th March 2025

 

Hard work, again, on a glorious sunny day. Difficult to know whether a Rock Pipit, at this time of the year, is one of the wintering birds or a spring migrant in this species which notoriously migrates early in the season. Otherwise migrants were a Rook south plus single new Dunnock & Great Tit passing through. Offshore a Red-throated Diver flew north. Comma butterfly in the mid-day sunshine worth mentioning as a first of the year.

Ringing: 1 Dunnock, 1 Great Tit.

Friday 7th March 2025

 

130 Cormorant went out fishing. Despite a very light southerly & pleasant conditions migrants non-existent except for 4 Jackdaw south. Single Gannet north offshore is about it apart from a couple of Oyks & Shelduck wandering about. Early indications are that less Great Tit are singing so far this spring.

Ringing: 1 Goldfinch.

Thursday 6th March 2025

 

Pleasant sunny morning. Southbound 3 Oyk, 2 Brent, 2 Rook, 2 Wood Pigeon & a Mipit with on site migrants 2 Chaffinch, 2 Skylark, Chiffchaff & Jackdaw. Worth highlighting are 2 Greenfinch ringed considering that only two were ringed in the whole of 2024 (back in both 1986 & 1987 LBO ringed 2,250 a year - how times have changed for this once ubiquitous species).

The second site record of Early Moth with the previous one being in February last year.

Ringing: 2 Greenfinch, 1 Blackbird, 1 Dunnock, 1 Linnet.
 

Wednesday 5th March 2025

 

More welcome signs of the impending spring with migrants including the first 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Woodcock, Skylark & Woodlark of the year plus 4 Jackdaw, 2 Chaffinch, 2 Stonechat & a Buzzard flying south offshore. 6 Long-tailed Tit & Rock Pipit still here. Stock Dove was present in the afternoon.

Ringing: 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Stock Dove.

Tuesday 4th March 2025

 

Frost but NO fog to start the day. 550 Cormorant went out fishing. Today's migrants were 24 Starling south, single Chaffinch, Redwing, Siskin & Song Thrush. 6 Egyptian Geese visited sitting on the sea for a while with 5 Long-tailed Tit being birds from recent days or revisiting from last November. 4 Turnstone & Rock Pipit in the usual places.

Ringing: 2 Goldfinch, 1 Chaffinch, 1 Redwing, 1 Song Thrush.