A very pleasant few hours on Soil Hill this morning. Not masses of movement, but a few skeins of Pink-footed Geese kept things entertaining with five flocks heading SE between 07:50 and 08:30, and then two more flocks going back NW for some reason between 09:30 and 10:00. In total counted from photos 413 birds SE and 185 birds NW. In tandem with one of these flocks was a group of three Wigeon which is a full patch tick for me, putting me now on 126 for the Hill.
Limited other movement, with 195 Meadow Pipits and 55 Swallows making up the bulk of species. It was a Soil Hill record morning for me way Jays today, with eight heading NE, two heading SW and three heading SE, this latter group also dropping into the North Slope Tree-Line for a short while.
Pretty steady with grounded birds. A Wheatear was the only migrant of note, with four Chiffchaff and a Whitethroat also present. Two Bullfinch were only my second here this year.
In total managed 46 species today, the full list here; https://ebird.org/checklist/S195440894
Trektellen sount here; https://www.trektellen.org/count/view/767/20240917
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