TOO quiet.... (1 Viewer)

Hi all,
While realising that it's almost November now,I can't help but feel that,due to the wind direction etc,it's the quietest end to October that we've had here for ages!It's all the more frustrating to hear news of birds like Yellow-rumped Warbler and Pine Bunting in the UK and a Western Orphean Warbler still in the Netherlands when the only bird reported to the Irish birdline so far today is a single Green Sandpiper at a lake in Co.Dublin:I had one of those on Wed and didn't even bother putting it on the line,as they are too regular!
Hope we get a last minute blast of SE winds(or winds from the far south): failing that,those Yanks in Iceland/Norway/Orkney have to move south at some stage....
Harry H

There is a vigorous system coming in fromt the west on Sunday.. the Ovenbird is on that!

Hi Harry,

No need to get worried yet, I've seen Pallas's Warbler as late as the end of November in Northumberland, so there could well be more to come yet.

And you never know, what with a low in the southern North Sea for the next couple of days, and then a big Atlantic depression running in for you . . . how about Siberian Dunnock for me, and Palm Warbler for you? o

Michael

Hi Jane,
That's some consolation,but I should imagine that it'll be very hit or miss on the headlands after it,with no subsequent arrival of commoner migrants(as one would doubtless get with good SE or S winds?).
Still,may well try the Old Head either on Sunday or early on Monday....
Harry H

Hi Michael,
Hadn't seen your reply when I posted!Realise that good migrants can arrive well into November(indeed,have seen Brown and Isabelline Shrikes,Bluethroat(an Irish mega),Barred Warbler etc in November,the former two being found quite late in the month),but was just reflecting on the fact that such arrivals were unlikely if weather conditions remained as they currently are!
There have been very few American passerines recorded here after October,but I wonder how much of that is down to the fact that most birders here switch off from searching the headlands once October has ended?
Harry H

I always thought the place to find late year American passerines was Essex housing estates! As birds stop moving the way to find them is not to go to headlands and see what goes through, but go and find tit flocks inland.

Harry Hussey said:

Hi all,
While realising that it's almost November now,I can't help but feel that,due to the wind direction etc,it's the quietest end to October that we've had here for ages!It's all the more frustrating to hear news of birds like Yellow-rumped Warbler and Pine Bunting in the UK

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What goes around comes around Harry
And usually right around the IOM.
Not on it!