The Waxwings have arrived!

19/10/05 Holme NOA leaders: Connor

A day trip to Holme NOA started with a good sea-watch. Great Northern Diver, Black Throated Diver and Red Throated Diver (4) were all recorded. As well as this three smart adult Long Tailed Ducks, three Razorbills, a superb Little Auk which landed right in front of us, two Little Gulls, four Kittiwakes, two Fulmars, four Velvet Scoters, fifteen Red Breasted Mergansers, a superb juvenile Pomarine Skua and four Great Crested Grebes making it an incredible hour and fifteen minutes!

On the actual reserve there was a steady passage of Redpolls with fifty recorded including one with a suspiciously pale rump, or was it the light? There were also ten Siskins, two Bramblings and a Rock Pipit and three Meadow Pipits over. A superb finish to the day was eleven Waxwings in the village, on the public footpath near the hump-back bridge.