Highlight of the day was a very skulky Red-throated Pipit on The Neck. Found it just before 4pm, its hanging around in a small area of stunted bracken but its really hard to see on the deck.
Unfortunately its chosen to hang out in just about the densest area of Manxie burrows on the island so there's no way we can let people over to see it - we're not expecting boats to be running until Tuesday at the earliest anyway. The Neck is a minimum impact area of the island & nobody goes there unless its neccessary for work, I probably won't even look for it until I have to go there again in a few days.
Apart from this it was a bit disappointing today, I too was out under a red dawn sky hoping for a bit of visible passage but nothing came this way.
We got details of the wing-tagged Hen Harrier from Barry O'Donoghue - she was one of a brood of four ringed this July in a bog in beautiful West Clare & is the first Irish Hen Harrier ever recorded outside Ireland!
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