Lutley Wedge 05/10/10 07.20am (12°c) Cloudy/overcast with patchy low cloud 7/8-8/8 Wind S F3

A real sign of the changing season this morning, with departing Hirundines and arriving winter Thrushes and Finches. Highlight was the first Brambling of the autumn with at least 3 birds flying through, with one flying over as a 'pulse' of 10 Redwings and 7 Swallows flew through! (This is a new earliest arrival date for Brambling at Lutley Wedge with the previous earliest on 13/10/2008). 2 Coal Tits 'dropped out' into the hedgerow along the Top Footpath briefly, before flying off high to the SE. 

Visible Migration 07.20-10.50am :-

47 Meadow Pipit >S/SW

46 alba Wagtail (37 >S/SW/SE)

1 Chiffchaff

64 House Martin >S/SSW

19 Swallow >S/SW

8 Skylark >W

27 Redwing (4 >W) (17 >SW) (6 >SE)

3 Song Thrush (2 >SW) (1> SE)

2 Thrush sp >NE (Redwing/Song Thrush)

3+ Brambling >S/SW

46 Chaffinch 

3 Redpoll sp >S

2 Siskin

31 Goldfinch (22 >S) (9 >E)

154 Linnet (flocks of 43 Grange Barns and 80+ Wassell Grove Pools)

78 Starling >W

10+ Lapwing >SW

2 Coal Tit >SE

23 B.H.Gull >S/SW/W

2 Raven >SE

Brambling Lutley Wedge 5/10/10