The following summarises only 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 strong and cold easterly winds, sunshine and temperatures that reached 11 degrees C. Sightings off the Fog Station included two Red-throated Divers, eight Lesser Black-backed Gulls, eight Sandwich Terns, two Arctic Terns and four Bottlenose Dolphins.
Elsewhere, there were eight Eider, the long-staying drake Garganey, one Pink-footed Goose, a Grey Plover heading south, ten Lesser Black-backed Gulls flying north, a Hooded Crow, three Goldcrest, a Sedge Warbler, the year’s first Garden Warbler, three Common Whitethroats, a Black Redstart, two Common Redstarts, eight Wheatear, one Yellow Wagtail and a White Wagtail.
