Well I think this is the start of the monsoon season good and proper. After a week of fine mornings and rainy afternoons today has gone the whole hog with a strong Northerly force 6 and torrential rain all day.
Looking on the bright side, this might shuffle stuff up a bit, so look out for some seawatching and maybe an arrival of waders as soon as the front abates...
This morning I took Bunty along to the coast path ( its amazing how that's my morning job when the weather is bad...) where we were just in time to catch sight of an adult Arctic Skua very close in move north along the rock edges. This evening, a quick glance from the car window had 1 Little Tern and 10+ Arctic Terns battling into the gale.
Two very wet and bedraggled Siskins were on our niger this evening...
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Heavy rain over Scandanavia for the next 3-4 days and in their face winds. Do waders hunker down like passerines in the face of this or will they head off regardless?
I was thinking in the short term Alan, this front was broad and moving north so, in theory, anything already on the move could be grounded. Sometimes I think birds try to skirt around poor weather but on a broad front this isnt possible so it diverts them towards us. If the weather has been blocking well to the north over fenno-scandia then we could be in for a lean spell...
Ah yes, that'll be the ''Bar-be-cue summer'' were were told was going to occurr this year!
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