One of 24 Meadow Pipits ringed.

                                                                           Siskins.


         Birds of prey were less spectacular at the south end today.    Four non-moving Common Buzzards were present and a party of 7 birds were spiralling ever higher over the fields and gradually drifted inland.   A female Sparrowhawk took one of only two Common Snipe seen on the flashes.   Other birds on the flashes included 28 Redshanks, a Green Sandpiper and 2 Little Egrets.   Waders on the shore were 420 Oystercatchers and 52 Curlews while moving south at sea were 5 Gannets and 9 Common Scoters.
     
         Migrants in the bushes were 6 Goldcrests, 7 Robins, one Common Whitethroat, one Chiffchaff, one Tree Pipit, one Song Thrush, one Lesser Redpoll and 10 Siskins.   450 Golden Plovers and 16 Pied Wagtails were on the fields.   A Pied Flycatcher was in my garden in the late afternoon.

         John Clarkson was between Stonebridge and Pye's Hall in the afternoon and added a Marsh Harrier, 2 Chiffchaffs and one each of Willow Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat and Common Redstart.