The weather finally calmed to a north-easterly and produced a good fall of birds. In total 220 birds were trapped during the day including 114 Goldcrests; of these 32% were adults and 59% were females. Also trapped were three Yellow-browed Warblers, 15 Chiffchaffs, a Reed Warbler, two Great Tits, a Blue Tit, six Long-tailed Tit, a Rock Pipit, a Lesser Redpoll, three Redwings, 39 Chaffinches and six Siskins! 

Yellow-browed Warbler © Ed Betteridge

Blue, Long-tailed and Great Tit © Ed Betteridge

Elsewhere, there were three Lapland Buntings over the South End, and one over the obs, another Yellow-browed Warbler at Ty Pellaf and one at Nant, a Fieldfare at Ty Capel, a Wigeon on Solfach, a Red Kite over the Mountain with nine Buzzards, two Short-eared Owls, a Firecrest at Cristin, an additional four Long-tailed Tits and a Tree Sparrow at Ty Pellaf. 

Overhead passage totalled 213 Skylarks, six Swallows, six Grey Wagtails, 11 Alba Wagtails, four Jackdaws, 65 Rooks, 22 Starlings, a Greenfinch, 94 Chaffinches, 103 Siskins and five Lesser Redpolls. 

Other totals were two Grey Herons, two Common Scoters, a Kestrel, a Merlin, a Peregrine, 12 Golden Plovers, 20 Purple Sandpipers, three Snipe, a Whimbrel, 74 Black-headed Gulls, seven Common Gulls, a Little Owl, 239 Meadow Pipits, two White Wagtails, 30 Stonechats, 70 Robins, four Wheatears, four Song Thrushes, a Redwing, four Blackcaps, 15 Chiffchaffs, 170 Goldcrests, 70 Siskins. 

First Clouded Yellow of the year was at Nant © Ed Betteridge