Non-Cease Birding: Weekend Wrap

November 10, 2025

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Contemplating how a lot birding potential there’s in the mean time (there’s Pallas’s Warblers and Pallid Swifts seemingly all over the place) I uncared for my responsibilites this weekend and obtained in a number of birding classes. Began off with a backyard session yesterday morning HERE the highlights being 3 cracking Firecrests within the Lane, almost 1000 Woodpigeons going over, a single Brambing, a Raven overhead, a Golden Plover and a Curlew over and 6 Egyptian Geese. The Tawny Owl was calling earlier than daybreak too.

I then walked to Ferry and walked alongside the tramway searching for a Pallas’s Warbler however no luck however had extra Woodpigeons nonetheless going over (one other 700) , two Crossbills, a few Yellowhammer and a Rock Pipit off of Ferry HERE.

A Pallas’s Warbler was discovered on the Severals shortly after discovered by Ian and Marc however I needed to wait till this morning to offer it a bash. Could not discover it this morning however had a pleasant group of six Crossbills go low over (together with some pink males), a Dartford Warbler, a number of extra Firecrests and some Redpolls and Siskins HERE.

Just a few sound recordings beneath together with the Crossbills, Siskin and the Rock Pipit off Ferry. I am nonetheless searching for Water Pipit domestically and making an attempt to become familiar with the call- as might be seen within the Rock Pipit sonogram beneath the decision may be very shrill exceeding 8Khz with growing pitches at levels not like Water Pipit which is barely much less shrill and the primary peak is usually the identical pitch as the next. The Crossbill calls that I recorded are fairly low (can vary from 2.5-5.5khz) at round 4Khz – may get misplaced in vis-mig as Linnets or Greenfinch when chattering like this.

Loads of migrants within the moth lure yesterday morning with 29 Rusty-dots, a Blair’s Mocha, Olive-tree Pearl, Dewick’s Plusia, Silver-Y and the primary Diamond-back shortly being the highlights. Not so many migrants within the lure this morning however the first Brick of the yr.

The climate forecast for this week appears very attention-grabbing once more with a powerful southerly airflow from Tuesday coinciding with thunderstorms over the Sahara mid-week with widespread sand throughout western Europe so presumably extra moth migrants, Pallid Swifts and Desert Wheatears on the playing cards. I will get out as a lot as I can this week.