Bird Sightings

Logbook sightings to be added.

Ringing

Census was completed this morning with nothing notable spotted. The team were still helping out with retrieving Storm Petrel GPS tags so a night at North End resulted in a single Storm Petrel caught and ringed and anothr ~50 birds seen within the colony. A few Manx Shearwaters were calling and flying around.

A migrant Spotted Flycatcher in Millcombe. ©Thomas Weston

Census was busy and the number of species recorded gave a very autumnal theme this morning. Millcombe was particularly busy with 6 Woodpigeons; the first Water Rail heard since the Spring; a flyover Turnstone heading North up the East coast calling – an island rarity but it may have been present for a while with the Oystercatchers in the Landing bay; 2 Shag offshore; 2 Carrion Crows; 2 Ravens; single Swallow roosting in the trees; 5 Willow Warblers demonstrating a small arrival of this species with another few noted on the plateau; single Goldcrest in Millcombe Pines heard all morning; 17 Wrens; 48 Starlings; 9 Blackbirds; single Spotted Flycatcher in the trees near the Gas Store/Battlements, with at least another 4 or 5 seen elsewhere; 6 Robins giving their autumnal ‘ticking’ call; 3 Stonechats; 6 Dunnocks; 4 House Sparrows but plenty more in the Village after a successful breeding season; single Meadow Pipit in the field by Castles; single migrating flyover Tree Pipit headed high SW over the Landing Bay heading towards Rat Island/South Light; 4 Chaffinches; 6 Linnets; and 4 Goldfinches.

A Pondsbury Sunset. ©Thomas Weston

A night of Storm Petrel surveys resulted birds seen at multiple breeding colonies. More on this to come in due course.

Logbook sightings to be added.