Yellow-browes at Royal Hotel, Monks Bay and Old Station Road, with a firecrest at Royal Hotel and Grove Car Park.

Yellow-browed again calling at Ventnor Park, with two firecrests there, this morning, and another yellow-browed reported at Bonchurch Old Church on RBA.

In the evening, between five and seven black redstarts feeding on St Catherines Church, flycatching in the evening sun.

It's been another really warm day, hardly conducing to thrilling bird movements, although fifteen odd blackbirds and a couple of small (song?) thrushes chasing each other around Grove / St Catherines churchyard late afternoon suggests things have picked up a bit. There was a small party of c.15 goldfinches in the churchyard too.

Earlier, the Ventnor Park tit flock produced 3 chiffchaffs, and there were a couple of more elsewhere.

Alba wags trickle through, with around 20 during the day, up to 30 siskins, four or five skylarks, 20-odd chaffinches and, well, that's about as good as viz mig got......  

Visible migration picking up again

RBA reports that the Ventnor Park yellow-browed warbler was still present this morning and, in the  afternoon, I finally managed to connect with it, calling in street trees along the stream. I'll assume this was the same as I had here a couple of weeks back - however unlikely that is!

This morning in the garden was slightly more interesting, with increasing numbers of birds on the move, although chiffchaff numbers continue to fall:

Siskin: 20
Blackbird: 1
Meadow pipit: 3
Goldfinch: 41
Chaffinch: 3
Linnet: 7
Crossbill: 2
Alba wagtail: 7
Redpoll; 1
Thrush spp: 1
Chiffchaff: 1
Wood pigeon: 20

The walk down Zig Zag Rd produced....

Linnets: 2
Alba wags: 3
Chiffs: 5
Jay:2
Skylark: 1
Goldfinch: 20

Grove Car Park:

Goldfinch: 16
Siskin: 10
Chiffchaff:1
Alba wags: 5
Linnet: 3
Redpoll: 1
Blackbird: 2
Chaffinch: 2

Winter Gardens:
Goldfinch: 42
Siskin: 1
Mipits: 2
Alba wags:3
Stonechats: 2
Blackbirds: 1

Alma Rd:
Chiffchaff: 1

La Falaise to Myrtle Bay:

Oystercatcher: 2
Linnet: 2
Blackbird: 1
Blackcap: 1
Goldcrest: 1
Chiffchaff: 4
Goldfinch: 1

Ventnor Park:

Chiffchaff: 4
Blackbird: 5
Goldfinch: 27
Goldcrest: 2
Jay: 2
Grey wag: 1
Yellow-browed: 1 (1.40pm, calling by stream)

Castle Court:
Jay: 1
Chiffchaff: 5
Song thrush: 1
Blackbird: 1
Linnet: 20

Yellow-browed still in Ventnor Park....

Iain Outlaw got onto the yellow-browed in Ventnor Park, east of the bandstand this morning, along with two firecrests......In the afternoon, the yellow-browed was still present and calling in the small copse in the NW corner of Old Station Road.

In the garden first thing, the upswing in visible migration was immediately clear:

Linnet: 113
Meadow pipit: 11
Alba wagtail: 5
Starling: 1
Swallow: 10
Goldfinch: 30
Grey wagtail: 1
Blackbird: 2
Siskin: 6
Chaffinch: 5
Redpoll: 20
Crossbill: 2

Tristis chiff, and yellow-browed still

Southerlies and showers in the morning, very warm. The garden first thing produced:
Linnet: 51
Meadow pipit: 4
Chaffinch: 16
Goldfinch: 5

Grove Car Park was lively:
Tristis chiffchaff: 1
Chiffchaff: 20
Chaffinch: 7
Blackbird: 4
Meadow pipit: 1
Alba wagtail: 1

The yellow-browed warbler showed well and was calling on and off between 1.30 and 2.30pm at Old Station Road.

Bit more lively...and a yellow-browed....

Swirling weather system off to the west drawing south-westerlies and showers over the south-west as far east as the island. Still easterlies across northern England. Immediately obvious that more birds have arrived this morning, although it has started blustery, so not easy to pick things out.

Grove Car Park and the church yard had a tit flock with:

Goldcrest: 2
Chiffchaff: 20
Blackbird: 19
Goldfinch: 3
Grey wagtail: 1
Alba wagtail: 1

At around 1.50pm I went up to Old Station Road. I entered the loop path via the west gate. As I got to the top of the first stretch, by the chalets, where the path turns right, a yellow-browed started to call up ahead! I rushed up to the kissing gate, and got onto the bird calling continuously from the hawthorn in the fence line just beyond the NT sign. I watched as it called agitatedly for several minutes, then realised what it was on about - a kestrel sitting on its perch below the telegraph wires! The YBW continued to call loudly, giving the best views I've ever had - the pale smudge of a crown stripe was even obvious (no, not a Pallas's, nor eastern-crowned!).

Three ouzels at the base of Coombe Bottom.

Quiet

Apart from a report of yellow-browed in Ventnor Park again (on RBA), things are pretty quiet.

Elsewhere, St Caths produced a Pallas's warbler and yellow-browed.