It dawned nippy with a light south-easterly and clear, blue sky. The sun rising over the sea soon warmed things up but there was little in the way of visible migration first thing. Five redwings seen heading north over the house from the front room window were the only ones today. In the garden from eight, a typically early brambling flew north calling, then a couple of siskins east. Four meadow pipits, a couple more siskins and ten jays completed a poor garden viz mig session. The feeders, on the other hand, were alive as ever with lots of chaffinches and gold finches, endless great and blue tits making off with whole peanuts, and the two now-resident coal tits up to their usual trick of flicking all the seeds out of the hoppers until they find the single bit of grain that satisfies their pickiness. I've now concluded that it's not the jackdaws emptying all the feeders of seeds, it's these two coal tits.
Down at Old Shute at 9.15am, in warm, still conditions, ten chaffinches were walking around in the sycamores, with a couple of jays, two goldcrests, three blackbirds, and a skylark then pied wagtail east overhead.
Then onto Old Station Road (previously Coombe Bottom). Aside from the now resident and still baffling grey 'willow warbler'......[right, bed time - to be continued : ) ]
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