Despite the forecast promising more or less blanket cloud and continuous, heavy rain throughout the day it wasn’t quite that bad and there were a couple of half decent weather windows in the morning where we managed to get some nets open for two, hour long sessions which produced a half decent 66 new birds with a Firecrest the highlight in amongst 35 Goldcrests and a flock of 11 Siskins plus a few Robins, Wrens, Chiffchaffs etc.    A few Finch flocks passed overhead while the Slavonian Grebe was again offshore and the big Barnacle Goose flock was still in the fields over towards town.

Today's totals from a very stop, start morning -   7 Wren / Gaerdesmutte;  5 Robin / Roedhals;  1 Blackbird / Solsort;  1 Blackcap / Munk;  4 Chiffchaff / Gransanger;  35 Goldcrest / Fuglekonge;  1 Firecrest / Roedtoppet Fuglekonge;  1 Blue Tit / Blamesje;  11 Siskin / Groensisken

                A walk around Kroghage at lunchtime in the increasingly heavy rain was hard work in the unpleasant conditions but did produce an adult male Redstart which had a decent pale wing panel but I don’t think it was enough for an eastern samamisicus bird, a first winter Little Gull and 4 Stonechats along with a few Robins, Chiffchaffs, Goldcrests etc.

Red-breasted Merganser