Ramsey - cold weather movements

These last few days have seen infuxes of lapwing and golden plover to the island, between 50-100 of each. The ground is frozen over here too for large parts of the day so some of the lapwing seem to have given up and carried on west to Ireland, there was a steady stream of them heading that way this morning. A few have even ventured in to the farmhouse garden to root in the veggie patch.

Fieldfare and redwing numbers have jumped up considerably too. Around 70-100 of each. A mistle thrush today is quite a rarity out here.

In addition, 20+ common snipe, 1 jack snipe and 4 woodcock. The fulmars have been absent throughout the cold spell and chough numbers are very low. If their feeding grounds aren't frozen they are saturated!