Nocmigging - birds heard 'tonight' (1 Viewer)

[tittletattler]

Hi all - does a thread already existing on here for discussing and reporting birds heard migrating at night? A bit like the 'March moths' thread, for example? So 'March nocmig'?

For instance, I had 2,100 Redwing, 40 Brent Geese (low enough to see!), 2 Moorhen, Wigeon between 8.40pm and 11.15pm tonight over Dartford, Kent.

 

[Mark Lew1s]

I’m not sure a thread like this exists and I think it’s a good idea. Would be nice to keep up with what is happening during the night elsewhere…

 

[halftwo]

Common Scoter at 4am today.

 

[tittletattler]

I’m not sure a thread like this exists and I think it’s a good idea. Would be nice to keep up with what is happening during the night elsewhere…

Thanks, yes. Maybe one 'sticky' 'Nocmig tonight' thread would be enough?

I hear some stuff that I can't identify. If other people post what they've had, it gives me a chance to check Xeno Canto and see if their birds were the species that I could hear. For example, I had what appeared to be 3 flocks of duck (or one flock circling) that made a chirpy, bubbling, chattering call and I can't ID them.

 

[Hotspur]

36 flocks of Common Scoter here in East Yorkshire the night before last plus a couple of Water Rails.

 

[Mark Lew1s]

Very quiet over Aberdeens west end these past few nights. Just a handful of redwing and a lone ringed plover competing with the territorial common and herring gulls, and oystercatchers.

 

[Sc0tty]

The last few days have seen my best run of Whooper Swans and Common Scoters in 5 years of nocmigging. Last night was a bit quiet, but there was a noticeable increase in thrushes - 26 Redwings and a Song Thrush. South Yorkshire.

 

[halftwo]

Gadwall for me the other night. (Never seen them from the house!)

 

[Sc0tty]

Another productive night... Whoopers 21:26, 21:58, 23:17, Common Scoters 02:30, Curlews 02:46. Golden Plover 03:18. South Yorkshire.

I keep looking on Trektellen but there aren’t many nocmiggers on there.

 

[RyanI]

Catching up on last months recordings here in SW Cornwall and the highlights so far have been black-winged stilt on the 24th March and a stone-curlew on the 16th.

 

[Sc0tty]

Got me first LRP of the year last night plus a few more whoopers and golden plovers

 

[RyanI]

Dotterel over last night after a disappointingly poor weekend