A more eventful day was greatly enlivened by a couple of rarer migrants injecting some much-needed excitement into the daily census routine. A
Rustic Bunting at Nether Linnay in the morning was a frustratingly brief highlight, immediately vanishing and evading detection during the intensive relocation efforts which ensued. Rather less mobile was a very skulking warbler at Westness that was eventually ushered into a mist net and identified as the autumn's first
Marsh Warbler.
The
Hawfinch was trapped and ringed at Holland House in the morning, while other small migrants included 3
North-Western Redpolls, a
Greenfinch, a
Yellow-browed Warbler, a
Garden Warbler and 2
Swallows. A couple of
Hen Harriers, a
Peregrine and 2
Merlins were seen and the usual
American Golden Plover remained.
Hawfinch
Marsh Warbler
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