Started off well this morning with a decent flock of 25+ House Martins over the trees in Shroggs Park. Time to watch out for Swifts - then 4 appeared, generally feeding higher than the martins. Always good to get Swifts in September as they are certainly 'early leavers'. Also 3 Swallows.
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Best I could do with a Swift (the sunshine on its underparts)
Most frustratingly, a distant falcon was hawking insects high up towards Boothtown. I watched it for a good few moments but failed to get firm identification so will have to let that one go.
Later, I tried Swales Moor, on the top. No visible migration other than 33 Lesser Black-backed Gulls with 2 adult Herring Gulls drifting >S along the ridge and 15 Meadow Pipits and 3 Swallows in the same direction.
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