Autumn Migration Watch - October 2017

This event was expertly led, as always, by Andrew Grace and attracted a group of 20+ participants.

Although visible passage was quite light, about 100 Goldfinches being the commonest, there were plenty of birds feeding in the sunny sides of bushes and on open ground and the group members enjoyed close views of Goldcrests, Chiffchaffs, a Blackcap and 11 Stonechats along the Firehills.

8 Song thrushes arrived, as did a lone Ring Ouzel at the 11th hour maintaining the tradition of showing people this bird at the migration event, and 10 Coal Tits were noted – were some continental?