Lammas Meadow - 20 April 2013

Clear overnight with a frost but becoming warm and sunny with a light S/SW breeze. 
A two hour watch on the meadow from 06.45 then an intermittent skywatch during the afternoon.

Not surprisingly most of yesterdays migrants had gone but a Nightingale singing from the copse was new in otherwise just 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Sedge Warblers and 4 Chiffchaffs. Two large pale looking Redpolls which flew low ENE with a lower toned slower flight call were likely to have been Mealy's.

Skywatching produced a male Peregrine north, 3 Red Kites, 4 Common Buzzards and a trickle of hirundines moving through northwards.

Willow Warbler