Sunday 24 October 2004

24th October 2004 Fair Isle Calm becoming light NE in afternoon

Heron 1
Gannet 2
Fulmar 100
Shag 70
Greylag Goose 100
Pink-footed Goose 2
Teal 1
Wigeon 8
Lapwing 4
Redshank 1
Turnstone 5
Snipe 30
Woodcock 1
Moorhen 1
Rock Dove 15
‘Eastern’ Short-toed Lark 1 We found it whilst checking through the Skylarks in a field at Springfield. Streaked crown, pale supercilium, lack of trailing edge, small size, breast-side patches dark, long tertials cloaking primaries, plain breast. Call ‘trillit’. Overall very grayish. White outer tail feathers. Pale broad crescent below eye giving impression of broad eyering. Streaked mantle, scapulars hanging over coverts. Median and greater coverts fringed pale. Black centers to median coverts forming line across wing. Bill short and conical.
Skylark 150
Meadow Pipit 30
Waxwing 30
Fair Isle Wren 4
Robin 10
Whinchat 1
Blackbird 300
Fieldfare 300
Redwing 150
Song Thrush 70
Starling 30
Chiffchaff 7
Blackcap 5
‘Eastern’ Lesser Whitethroat 1
House Sparrow 30
Jackdaw 1
Hooded Crow 1
Raven 2
Chaffinch 4
Brambling 50
Twite 30
‘Northern’ Bullfinch 60
Yellowhammer 1
Snow Bunting 49
Lapland Bunting 1
Reed Bunting 1
Yellowhammer 1