A gentle south-easterly breeze of about 8mph fanned Crowborough today, meaning that migration conditions were not bad.
This was easily proved as although Meadow Pipit numbers were lower than on some occasions, other species were present in higher numbers than usual. Only 11 Meadow Pipits were recorded, considerably less than on other days recently.
However, Redwing numbers were up, with 8 noted, whilst the same number of Skylarks were noted flying west over the Beeches Estate. Siskins were out in force, although nothing like the numbers of last year yet, with 9 over in total. Chiffchaffs still lingered: around the area I found 5, although no Willow Warblers showed up nor Blackcaps.
In the wagtail department, Pied Wagtail proved today to be as common as Grey Wagtail, with just one of each observed.