A walk around the garden today produced probably the best crop of migrants yet. It started with two Daurian Redstarts (a pair) and several Pallas’s Warblers. Further round I flushed a Red-flanked Bluetail and then a Dusky Warbler showed briefly from a shrub before typically diving deep into cover. A ‘tick’ call alerted me to a flying Bunting which settled on the top of a nearby tree, revealing itself to be a first winter Yellow-browed Bunting and then a small flock of Yellow-bellied Tits came through a group of young poplars.. Not bad for a 20-minute walk around the garden!
