..often on the more negative side of the avg.

We're fekked. Coming your way soon😉

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With s-e England seeing most movement from the near continent over Channel / Southern Bight, why I always suggest e. coast trends n of the Wash really don't wash down here. Trends in most counties down here reflect the declines nationally..

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🤔Not just nationally, tho' sadly, it doesn't do Roxborough😉, but here's (1) Borders next to Lothian, one county above, one below the Scottish national historic average..
and (2) Borders historic average w. 2024 and 2025 plotted, both years well above the old Nov avg..

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👍🤔 Devil's advocate - an above avg or an avg 'plenty' though? Birdtrack hints p'haps below avg - not as many found on day lists as in past? So tough to get a grip on!🤔

Fun w, us soft sarfeners is drops in so many spp. nos. are flippin' obvious 'cos flippin' large - if we bother to look😉.

Owww 😳

Birdtrack an absence/presence of course. Think many will agree (those who count and don't just day list) nos. in s-e absolutely dire. Until food runs out on continent, this'll be it.

All so obvious even I'm noticing. Yet so few birders talking about. Keep sounding the sirens sir!

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As well as 'winter thrushes' being Redwing & Fieldfare, there's also Blackbird of course. A small arrival only, plenty of gaps in nos this yr after local breeding nos hit by climate/virus..

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There's a prominent 'dip' on Birdtrack this year - my biases say that's the two pulses on show, c/o such low nos. involved.

The migratory urge in the first pulse kept 'em moving on, good feeding allowed easy refuelling all along route.

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🤔 I was thinking on Redwings mainly - Kentish early arrivals usually still moving, on to w UK, or (mainly) sw France, Iberia. Hoping they just went thru. Usually 'replaced' by nos arriving from cont. in Nov. IMHO 2nd arrival has been happening, also in really low nos..

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Today I spent time discovering Sewa www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/gui... during a wonderful visit to the Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara.

A visit I'd promised myself during the Pandemic, on hearing how the Gurdwara was providing free meals to NHS staff.

(They provided some 60,000 free meals in total🙏)

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Post-lunch, fun to watch a Rock Pipit hiding up under the overhang from public and pooches whilst feeding on seawall critters.

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Good to meet, and to hear more about your talk.

Low carbon travel advocacy FTW.