The following summarises only the records from our resident birders’ health walks and garden sightings; consequently, it provides a mere snapshot of the true scale of our spring migration.
A day of moderate easterlies, sunny intervals and temperatures that peaked at ten degrees C. During the seawatch, a Blue Fulmar flew north and other notable sightings included ten Eider, 14 Sandwich Terns and 11 Common Terns.
Sightings on the headland itself included a Little Grebe, one Green Sandpiper, a Sedge Warbler, the year’s first Lesser Whitethroat, a Grasshopper Warbler, one Ring Ouzel, nine Wheatear and a Common Redstart.
