Plumstone Mountain

Another fabulous Starling spectacle tonight: coming in, mainly from the South and East in thousands, and probably tens of thousands. The total could still be over a million, and watching the latecomers line up wing to wing on the upper brances of the pines was brilliant. The starlings did not start to arrive until after 1730, and they were still coming in after 1800.
Raptors were a bit disappointing: a couple of Buzzards, a Peregrine (with a kill) and a hawk that was more likely a large Sparrowhawk than a small Goshawk, but hard to make out in the fading light.
Highlight in terms of Country rarities was a group of 4 male and one female Yellowhammers near the abatoir.