A full day in the Holme area was unsurprisingly a bit quiet given the wind direction but a few bits and pieces were noted. Overhead passage early morning in particular was fairly productive. All day totals included 4 Bearded Tits west, 1 Tree Pipit west, 2 Rock Pipits west, 3 Tree Sparrows, 2 Crossbills east, 3 Siskins east, 10 Skylarks west, 5 House Martins west, 3 Swallows west, 3 Snipe west, 5 Pied Wagtails west, 26 Jackdaws west, 6 Carrion Crows west, 200+ Starlings west and 80 Meadow Pipits west. Grounded migrants included 1 Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff, 6 Song Thrush and 6 Mistle Thrush. Seawatching yielded 2 Great Skuas west, 1 Arctic Skua west, 7 Guillemots (5 on sea, 2 west), 2 Fulmars (1 east, 1 west), 7 Red-throated Divers (1 east, 6 west), 2 Diver sp. west, 42 Gannets, 3 Great-crested Grebes and 133 Common Scoters. Pink-footed Geese numbers were well up, with at least 400 noted, 2 Cetti's Warblers were on the NOA reserve and a Greenshank flew west. Greenfinches, Goldfinches and Chaffinches were also more prominent than usual, with 20, 40 and 37 respectively.
