A stiff, but mild, south westerly blew throughout the day, dropping to a mere 6mph by midday. Combined with dense cloud cover, this produced the year’s second
Pallas’s Warbler. The bird was seen at Nant around the plantation, occasionally flashing its rump patch and peeking out of the foliage to show its bold head markings. It proved elusive throughout most of the day, until the evening when it showed well for a single observer. This species seems to be becoming ever more regular, not only in the UK, but also here on Bardsey, with Pallas’s Warbler becoming almost annual in recent years.
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Pallas's Warbler, dark eye stripe, bold supercillium tinged orange towards the forehead, features to compare against the similar looking Yellow-Browed Warbler, apologies for the "record shot" quality |
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Here the central crown stripe is just visible |
Out to sea today, there seemed to be a reasonable movement of auks and gulls. Seawatching produced totals of two
Teals, seven
Common Scoters, 12
Mediterranean Gulls, 1700
Black-headed Gulls and 2229
Razorbills.
Inland, a
Merlin was seen around the North End, two
Water Rails were heard, two
Snipes were flushed from the South End and a
Woodcock from Pen Cristin. Overhead passage consisted of just a single
Skylark, marking what appears to be the end of their migration over the island. Two
Black Redstarts were seen, with a cracking adult male seen in the Lowlands. Aside from the aforementioned Pallas’s Warbler, warblers remained the same with a
Yellow-browed Warbler, two
Chiffchaffs, a
Willow Warbler, 12
Goldcrests and a single
Siberian Chiffchaff logged. Some finches were still moving through as well, with such highlights as four
Siskins, a
Bullfinch and a brace of
Crossbills.
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