My 21/9/13 garden sightings Migration

After a few days of being overcast and with minimal birds being sighted the morning was quite cloudy but in the afternoon the sun came out and the birds came in mass. With lots of "new" birds today the autumn migration has just started and there's big hopes for tomorrow as it's suppose to be another good day with high pressure coming up from the south west meaning there should be more good birds.
 Our garden blackbirds go into the countryside after breeding for moulting and for feeding on the natural berries before coming back into the garden for the Autumn and Winter months. A Migrant blackbirds last year scored at least 6 different females, 5 males and several 1st winter males my hope is that we score high again and get a leusctic individual which would be good for photographs and a few to come into the garden again.   

My sightings today:

Opposite houses

• 40+ feral pigeons
• Collard doves
• Wood pigeons
• Jackdaws

Trees

• 1 blue tit
• 1 great tit
• 2 robins
• 15+ house sparrows
• 1 collard dove
• 3 gold finch
• 1 coal tit- 1st of the Autumn feeding and calling in the apple tree. 

Coal tit

Flying over

• Peregrine juv- same bird as yesterday flew through quite quick.
• 1 buzzard circling on thermals
• 300+ corvids- rooks, jackdaws and carrion crows.
• 20+ black headed gulls
• 3 lesser black backed gulls
• 10+ wood pigeons
• 5 green finches

Visable migration overhead

Swallow

Marsh harrier juv (awful record shot)

• 30+ common gulls
• 30+ house martins- My latest sighting. Sighted in the evening feeding altogether.
• 3 sand martins- latest sighting, not usually near the town with the house martins.
• 5 Meadow pipits- a flock of 4 and a single bird flew north west (1st of Autumn).
• 105+ Swallows- A stream of birds in the 13:00- 17:00 period when after around 14:00, the clouds cleared and swallow sightings increased rapidly.
• 1 MARSH HARRIER- juv got mobbed by herring gulls as it flew south east.