Despite the SW winds birds were still being found along the coast, presumably undiscovered arrivals from the fall a couple of days before, and so I spent the day at Holme. The undoubted highlight was a juvenile RED-BACKED SHRIKE that Chris Mills found along the access track during the day. He had it briefly before it disappeared and he couldn't relocate and after an hour and a half searching I was starting to think it might have moved on. Fortunately Ray R relocated it from the high ground at Gore point and a timely phone call allowed me to see it for a few seconds, before it completely vanished again, although it was relocated again briefly in the evening! One elusive Shrike. Otherwise, notable bits and pieces included a reasonable overhead movement, with 5 Swifts west, 100 House Martins west, 55 Swallows west 7 Whimbrels west and 1 Greenshank, and a small number of grounded migrants, headlined by a Whinchat and 2 Garden Warblers, with a Cetti's Warbler, a Bullfinch, 5 Lesser Whitethroats, 7 Blackcaps, 25 Whitethroats and 3 Willow Warblers noted.
