With a north to north east headwind this morning, anything that attempted to cross the channel was going to struggle some what. As I scoped out near the lighthouse i could see smallish passerines quite low over the sea heading in land - most too distant to ID but probably mostly phylloscs - some willow warblers landed near the lighthouse soon after anyway.
One bird pitched in not far from me, but initial views left me head scratching? It had dug in in the longish grass and gave me very little. So I moved to where it descended last as I needed to ID it and sure enough it poked its head up revealing a bold supercilium; a sedge warbler, in off. It was now a no brainer to go and bash the bushes. So I headed to rocken end where most of the inbound birds seemed to have headed for.
When I got to Watershoot bay I could hear willow warblers and a sedge warbler singing. Then a whitethroat. Handful a blackcaps. Another sedge warbler was singing and moving around the Rocken end pond, with more willow warblers there and two spotted flycatchers. I spent some time there as it felt like something more scarce could suddenly appear. But alas.
Up towards the valley leading to wood warbler alley, I had two more sedge warblers singing, and two redstarts. Finally atop the valley ridge as it neared lunchtime, two hobbies circled around and above me. Enjoyable, but I felt that a lot more was probably going on, even before I arrived.
Vid caps of the in off sedge warbler
Another further in land
Adjusted and cropped
hobby
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