Tuesday, 30 September 2025

The breeze is beginning to ramp up as the wild weather predicted at the weekend begins to take effect. As a result, it was a bit of a quieter day on the land with a reduction of Goldcrests, Robins and Chiffchaffs with 42, 35 and 11 respectively. The Withies held the quality though with a perhaps belated first for the year in Yellow-browed Warbler, with a brief individual uttering the distinctive contact-calls before vanishing in Plas Withy as quickly as it appeared. With the nets set-up, it was then surprising that a Siberian Lesser Whitethroat was trapped along with a couple of Willow Warblers. Hopefully some DNA analysis confirms the race in the near future. Elsewhere, a tardy Yellow Wagtail flew over, a Firecrest was at Nant, a Water Rail remained at Nant and a Grey Wagtail was over Ty Pellaf, even briefly landing in the farmyard. A Coal Tit also continued to do the rounds across the island and two Blue Tits remained. On the Narrows, there were 19 White Wagtails and a two Wheatears.

Siberian Lesser Whitethroat (C) Steve Stansfield

Siberian Lesser Whitethroat (C) Steve Stansfield

The recent increase in wildfowl continued with a pair of Teals in the Wetlands whilst waders included 18 Curlews, two Whimbrels, two Snipes and (bizarrely) our first Turnstone sighting for a few days, where are they? A pair of Peregrines were noisily squawking over the Mountain, the male even doing a spectacular flypast for our last guided walk of the season! 

We've recently passed the milestone of 50 Seal pups for the season with quite the variation in development and sizes of pups across the island (C) Steve Stansfield


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