The first birder arrived on Corvo yesterday; 5 additional ones joined him today, including myself. Our flight landed at 2pm so we had only a couple of hours before sunset to start looking for birds. Da Ponte was the only wooded valley properly visited (lower and upper parts) without any success. The low and mid-fields around the village were also checked later in the afternoon, again without scoring anything...
A quick look this evening at the wind charts suggest that westerlies will start blowing seriously from Saturday onwards until at least Monday evening (with gusts up to 30 knots), which shall be very helpful to bring more vagrants to the island! With this perspective in mind, the motivation level in the group is currently at its best! Tomorrow will be the first complete birding day on Corvo for most of us, so we hope to get lucky and find the first american lanbirds of the autumn..
A quick look this evening at the wind charts suggest that westerlies will start blowing seriously from Saturday onwards until at least Monday evening (with gusts up to 30 knots), which shall be very helpful to bring more vagrants to the island! With this perspective in mind, the motivation level in the group is currently at its best! Tomorrow will be the first complete birding day on Corvo for most of us, so we hope to get lucky and find the first american lanbirds of the autumn..
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