Wednesday, 17 August 2016

Shanklin down

Last effort before heading to Scotland for a break. Fairly murky start that became brighter. Highlight a tree pipit flying over. A few expected grounded migrants to be seen: redstarts and spotted flys and chiffs/willow warblers (one of the latter produced a subsong).
A precursor to the full-on autumn migration in the coming weeks.


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