A feast of Phylloscs

Paul & I spent the day around the Dale peninsula:

Gann - 7 pale-bellied Brents, 2 Med Gulls (ad/2ndW), 8 Little Egrets, 1 Redshank & good numbers of Rock & Meadow Pipits + a few Skylarks over

St. Ann's Head - a flock of Long-tailed Tits, a few Meadow Pipits & a Goldcrest but not a lot else

Dale - a good search of the village revealed a Willow Warbler in the vicar's apple tree (this is not a euphomism!), but not a lot else (3 Swallows)

Dale Fort - at last some Chiffchaffs, followed by a Yellow-browed Warbler (in the woodland opposite Point House), then an unidentified Phyllosc calling that we suspected to be a Greenish Warbler in the garden of Point House (we have since listened to a CD of Greenish call - it was one....) and in the hours that followed unsuccessfully trying to confirm the Greenish, we found a second Yellow-browed. Bittersweet is a word that springs to mind.