The 16th started off well with Brennig catching a few birds down in Millcombe and Luke had a nice census with a few finches and thrushes arriving, It wasn't until about 11am when just finishing census a swift flew low over the trees on the west side of Millcombe Valley, after a brief view I shouted down to Brennig and managed to get him on it before the bird moved north out of view.
Once the nets were closed we foucused on re-finding the bird, and after about 30 minutes Brennig had it again over Smelly Gully and heading down to the Landing Bay where it fed for most of the day up and down the beach road affording amazing views as it hawked for late insects, allowing us to confidently identify this to be a Pallid Swift - just the second record for the island following one in October of 2016. Other highlights of the day were 2 Woodcock, 1 Hen Harrier, 1 Merlin, 120 Blackbird, 122 Chaffinch and 1 Bullfinch.