I was tipped off yesterday by one of the vismig group currently spending some time watching at Spurn, that they had over 6000 redwing between 1245hrs and 1600hrs yesterday...
Went up to Haslingden Top O'th Slate for first hour but very little doing, certainly no Thrushes. So at 0800hrs went up to Haslingden Grane (my Thrush corridor watchpoint=Stoney Rake) and straight away I had several parties... wind increasing and keeping Redwing very low and Starlings within inches of ground...
Hi Bryan I love this time of year when the Thrushes start to arrive. I too noticed the amount of Redwing that had been seen at Spurn. I am due another visit to Spurn on the 25-26th so I hope the Thrushes are more numerous as a lot of the Redwing seem to be carrying on, in off the sea. It seems the Fieldfares are holding back a little at the moment too so i hope my visit will be rewarded with good numbers.
I was at Spurn when the record for Pink Feet was smashed with other 9000 counted on the 28th Sept this year. This number will have been much higher as I read this passage carried on into the night. What a site and sound to behold it was as if every few minutes a skein of 50-100 birds would pass calling ...lovely evocative call I always think, it's almost like they are glad to be here!
Always love reading your Vis-mig reports, thanks.
-- Edited by Ste Rush at 18:29, 2008-10-16
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Hi Steve, Thanks for that and I am sure you will have a great time at Spurn, especially on those dates because usually on or around them dates I get the main peak of the Fieldfares and to watch them come in must be fabulous... I have seen Starlings coming in at Spurn and that for me was so good... Wow you must have thought all your birthdays had come at once to catch that spectacle with the Pink Feet.. in fact I believe on them dates the vismig sites did well inland also with record numbers, I missed that very day being overseas at the time, so never managed to count how many would have gone through Top O'th Slate, but I guess there would have been hundreds, cos thats how it was at the Yorkshire sites...
Tomorrow looks well with the weather and wind so hopefully the Redwing will keep going, we will see.
