On arrival in the car park 70 Fieldfare went over WSW, over the next hour more groups of 50-100 went over, bringing a minimum of 300+ in an hour. On top of this we had 6 Snipe, 50+ Redwing, 3+ Meadow Pipit, 1 Skylark, 1 Raven well beyond the landfill East, then 10+, followed by 120+ Golden Plover circling over the hills on the far horizon, dropping on to the Borough Marsh area.
The wind got up and had quite a bite to it, so that was it for the day for me.
It is nice to once again prove that Golden Plover can be easily picked up using the A4 valley as their regular haunt or passage route.
The month is on 95, one more to go to equal the October record and we still have time time to find Mediterranean Gull, Lesser Redpoll and Bittern, plus who knows what else might show up, if we knuckle down and get lucky with a Firecrest, a Ruff, maybe a Merlin, or a rare warbler we stand a chance of hitting 100 for the first time in October.
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