October 22nd 2009

There was a decent spell of clear weather over night before clouding over again by the morning encouraging some migrants to move with 134 Starling, 14 Skylark and 5 Redwing over the garden while sorting my traps out just after first light. Unfortunately the movement did not last and by the time Dave and I arrived at the pond this afternoon and walked out to toft bay it was dead as a Dodo and not helped by Joe public and kodak fiddlers walking the shoreline and trillions of fisherman. Eventually found the Lesser Scaup and a search of the area revealed 9 Buzzard and a distant hirundine over Kites Hardwick.

Richard