Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd

Much cooler and quite blustery halted most passage as the wind was from the west.
A steady stream of Sand Martins seemed to be passing through with the flow of the wind, but no other hirundines were located. A swallow had been recorded in the week though.
A wheater was seen briefly by the trailor gates but disappeared before news had spread. A drake scaup was seen in flight but couldn't be relocated on the eastern reedbed, making 2 birds missed on the saturday, but a fine adult Med gull on Astley was good enough consolsation after all the hours put in going through the BGH's so far this. 4th bird so far I failed to get last year!
The 5th species, and 110th in total for the year came on sunday with a drake common scotor on skelton.
I expect there to be a steady increase in new birds over the next couple of weeks, and although the gap to the top will inevitably increase before I cam claw some back, I'm looking forward to the next couple of months! :)