13/10/13 Migration mad for THRUSHES and FINCHES

A drizzly cloudy day with a northern wind again brought quite a few species all flying into the wind.
I got up at 8:15 and watched the migrants fly through before it started raining and the migration came to a halt before a few others flew over.

In the garden

• 7 jackdaws
• An adult male and an adult female blackbird

Trees

• 2 great tits
• A blue tit
• The two blackbirds
• Corvids
• Collard doves
• A chaffinch
• Corvids

Opposite houses

• Feral pigeons
• 2 lesser black backed gulls
• 2 common gulls
• 5 black headed gulls
• Corvids
• Collard doves
• Wood pigeons

Vis Mig Flying over

• 350+ gulls- mostly migrating common gulls mixed in with black headed gulls, herring gulls and lesser black backed gulls
• Wood pigeons
• Strangely quite a few collard doves which I didn't think migrated. This has been happening for a week and we've had roughly 20 flying over with only about 7 today.
• 4 cormorants
• A skylark- calling
• 12 pied wagtails
• 10 green finches- calling, making "jup" type call and weren't like the chaffinches.
• 6 chaffinches
• 5 meadow pipits
• 122 GOLD FINCHES- great count with numbers ranging from 1- 20+ all flying around the area.
• 7 FIELDFARES-flying over with the redwings (3,4)
• 1421+ REDWINGS- flying over with massive flocks ranging from 6-60+ with about 1000+ sighted before it rained in the hour and a half and only a few sightings when it was rainy.