Both strong wind and continual light rain are probably responsible for a lack of birds today. (that is unless the birds where using it as a tailwind as the Starlings were. A few Redwing on the move today in very small parties mainly in single figures and most of the groups going West today. Also Starling increasing daily. I am sure now that we are possibly picking up a newly formed roost with the Starlings, somewhere out to the West, (could only have been formed within the past week or so), but we must now be getting roosting birds plus a regular incoming movement as well using the same routing - East (I would bet if there is a roost that they are all newly arrived Continental birds anyway). The last couple of days have brought my suspicion of this because of some of the great individual parties which are increasing daily, and can contain about 500 plus birds and these are coming through in the first 45minutes of the count and then things start to settle down and regular squadrons take over for the rest of the morning. Not confirmed but possible...
