I arrived at the patch shortly after dawn this morning for a planned visible migration session; it started off promisingly enough with three Fieldfares heading north-west and the first Redwings of the autumn, a group of nine moving west-south-west, the vanguard of a good movement which involved around 250 birds including flocks of 70, 60 and 30 west and 55 west-north-west. Finches were also on the move including at least three Chaffinch east, two Lesser Redpoll south, around 50 Goldfinch moving mainly south-west at tree top height and five Linnet south. Other species on the move included five Meadow Pipits and three Grey Wagtails, all in all not a bad session. Common Teal numbered 127 but there was very little else of interest on the wildfowl front, just three Mute Swans over the basin early morning. Finally seven Redshank and four Common Sandpiper were in the secondary roost on the east side of the ecology park at high tide.
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