Well, more like south-easterlies here on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, but from a generally easterly airflow. Things were a bit blowy up in the garden first thing, with just three or four chiffchaffs and fewer than ten meadow pipits and 50-odd swallows overhead.
The walk down into town was equally uneventful, with very few Phyloscs and barely any meadow pipits nor Hirundines overhead. There's still no sign of the heavy linnet, goldfinch nor siskin movements getting going. That said, I did have three parties of linnets fly NE over Rew Down, summing to around 60, a couple of evenings ago, and yesterday evening there were around 500 swallows feeding up on Week Down and the gold course, with 20-odd chiffchaffs in the area and a couple of blackcaps.
Two wrynecks remain up on Ventnor Downs - not somewhere I'll be venturing much as I'm frantically trying to find something - anything - in Ventnor Park this autumn......
4pm update
A wander around Ventnor Park produced a firecrest in with two gold crests (bringing my 'crest totals to three golds and two fires for the Autumn....). The Ridge held around 25 chiffchaffs with another 15 at Flowersbrook, and a couple of jays and four chaffinches. REALLY quiet!
The walk down into town was equally uneventful, with very few Phyloscs and barely any meadow pipits nor Hirundines overhead. There's still no sign of the heavy linnet, goldfinch nor siskin movements getting going. That said, I did have three parties of linnets fly NE over Rew Down, summing to around 60, a couple of evenings ago, and yesterday evening there were around 500 swallows feeding up on Week Down and the gold course, with 20-odd chiffchaffs in the area and a couple of blackcaps.
Two wrynecks remain up on Ventnor Downs - not somewhere I'll be venturing much as I'm frantically trying to find something - anything - in Ventnor Park this autumn......
4pm update
A wander around Ventnor Park produced a firecrest in with two gold crests (bringing my 'crest totals to three golds and two fires for the Autumn....). The Ridge held around 25 chiffchaffs with another 15 at Flowersbrook, and a couple of jays and four chaffinches. REALLY quiet!
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