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5th Sep

With the wind dropping this morning it gave us a chance to look for migrants on the land with two Swifts, a Golden Plover, 111 Ringed Plovers, a Honey Buzzard passing south, a Wryneck in the Desert, 650 Sand Martins, 970 Swallows, 55 Willow Warblers, 14 Chiffchaffs, four Sedge Warblers, 70 Blackcaps, a Garden Warbler, 25 Whitethroats, three Goldcrests, two Spotted Flycatchers, a Redstart, ten Yellow Wagtails, four Grey Wagtails and a Tree Pipit. The sea was much quieter but still produced 400 Sandwich Terns, 13 Little Terns, 16 Arctic Skuas and three Balearic Shearwaters.

Elsewhere, of great note was an adult American Golden Plover which was with European Golden Plovers in a stubble field just north of Jury's Gap.