..which was more accurately " audible migration" really. ...because most of it was PUOC ! .... Picked Up On Call. The first thing was, when I got up, I went out into the garden ...open skies, pretty calm, not raining ... and then a Siskin called .... and there it was, right overhead. Excellent. ... so I thought .... this looks good ! For the first time for many mornings, it was the right kind of weather. So I went down to the the salt-marsh .... and over the next half-hour there were .. ... a few Swallows going south at about treetop height, and later a few more ...18 in total. About 30 Skylarks went through in little groups ... hard to count as they circled around whilst erratically moving south. Little groups of Chaffinches also going south, amounting to around 40 in all. 2 Canada Geese whizzed past me just above head height. Unusually for this time of year, there were no geese at all on the salt-marsh. And then at 9 am it all died down. As it tends to. OK ... nothing remarkable ..and it was very cold ... but good to see. Let's hope there's a few more early mornings like that to come. Then I went shopping ... and 2 Jays flopped over the supermarket. And then I went down to the river .... to check on the Common Gulls of course. So far, the max count has been 5. But this time, the flock was 307 strong, but that included 29 (!!) Common Gulls. Crumbs !! Briwsion !! Groß Gott . Mince ! Zut ! That's going to put a rocket up the graphs ! I feel quite victorious after all that....
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