A warm bright sunny day is not the ideal conditions for finding vagrants at this time of year and so it proved this morning. A Whinchat around the horse paddock was about as good as it got.

Whinchat - 1
Stonechat - 7
Blackcap - 7
Chiffchaff - 12
Goldcrest - 3
Linnet - 33
Meadow Pipit - 45
Pied/Alba Wagtail - 25
Skylark - 9
Great-spotted Woodpecker - 2
Jay - 2
Kestrel - 2
Buzzard - 3
Sparrowhawk - 1
Grey Partridge - 11
Curlew - 4
Oystercatcher - 1
Med Gull - c.200
Common Seal - 1
Clouded Yellow - 2 or 3

Whinchat