a patch tick!

Out scouring for rare american passerines this am and was rewarded with a fly-over tree pipit - it called a few times as it flew over, and may have dropped into fields near the top lane but I couldn't relocate it - a long-awaited patch tick (115).

return to cape

Back to Cape again today on the 2.15 ferry. This time for crippling views of a solitary sandpiper and a northern waterthrush in the same ditch, and often in the same field of view! Incredible! When it rains, it pours!

Galley gets another fea's (& there's a yellow warbler on cape!)

An evening seawatch produced Galley's second (or third??)  fea's petrel of the year which flew past at 7.15pm tonight. Other morning & evening combined totals included 2 great shearwaters, 1 balearic shearwater, 38 sooty shearwaters, 6 bonxies and 1 pomarine skua. Not that I saw any of the evening stuff as I cracked and twitched Cape this afternoon for the yellow warbler there - what a cracker!!

blackwits at long strand

A flock of 7 black-tailed godwits over Long Strand this morning were a welcome year tick (114) - things is moving all right!

barwit at long strand

Its been quiet enough for waders at  Galley so far this autumn but a single bar-tailed godwit at Long Strand this evening was hopefully an indication of a bit of movement.  An optimistic morning seawatch produced 1 balearic shearwater, 11 storm petrels and 2 common scoter, with 2 sooty shearwaters and 2 arctic skuas this evening.