Lie in!

Very thick, very wet, very horrible fog blanketed the station all morning preventing any nets being opened until it began to clear around midday; after which it was clear that there were a few birds about as a couple of hours netting produced 50 new birds with 32 Robins the main species while 8 Redwings, 3 Song Thrushes, a Fieldfare and a few Dunnocks were also noteworthy - a good day after all!

Fieldfare

 

As soon as the fog started to clear Eiders wasted no time in making the most of improved conditions (although visibility was still very poor!) with large flocks piling through; Louis who was counting just down the coast recorded 14,000 in three hours before the weather closed in again late afternoon.

 

We also welcomed Henning Ettrup to the station who, after putting his wife on a plane to Rome dashed down here for two weeks of ringing just as the spring starts to get going!