Good visible migration ‘early doors’ at Point of Ayr today with well over 500 finches flying over. They were mostly Chaffinches with the rest of the movers made up from Siskin, Lesser Redpoll, Greenfinch and Bullfinch. I swore I heard a Crossbill too, but to use another Ron Atkinsonism, you’d need to be a member of the ‘wide awake club’ to be sure.Other migrants included a handful of Stock Doves, a Sparrowhawk and heading up the rear around fifty Skylarks. The bushes were also full of Blackbirds, Robins and unusually high numbers of Dunnock – probably all coming to a garden near you!
Despite a good thorough search I could not find anything out of the ordinary. It has been a good few years since my last decent rarity here – a Golden Oriole near the old hide. Never mind, the search will continue.
On the way home I popped into Inner Marsh Farm. Due to the returning Dowitchers the hide was again full of dow-twitchers making for a rather unpleasant squeeze.
But, despite a Curlew Sandpiper and a lovely flock of Golden Plover, it was hard not to notice a young couple who had walked on to the edge of the reserve from Puddington and flushed all the birds from number one pool. Rather embarrassingly telescopes had to be averted when they started to smooch, blissfully unaware of the fact that twenty people with high powered optical equipment were sat no more than two hundred yards away!
Until later.
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