Saturday
Back on the Fife coast with an opportunity to look at Knicraig Point mid morning after the wife was dropped at her latest bead making event in Leven. An increasingly strong SSW wind made it hard work, but this did follow an overnight SE wind and rain which had the potential to drop a few migrants. It had, but nothing too exciting with a small number of Goldcrest, Song Thrush and Blackbird in the sycamores around the cabin. The wind had turned into a decent direction for Visible migration but the strength looked to be subduing movement of small birds apart from Skylark; a total of 25 birds included  some small groups battling into the wind low over the sea.
I picked up a flock of five when they flew over a pod of approx. 10 Bottle-nosed Dolphin I was following through my scope! The dolphins were nice to see, only my second encounter from the Fife coast, the first also at Kincraig in the summer this year.
Two splendid fem/juv Merlin were seen within a few minutes of each other heading south out over the sea. Sea passage not really happening but singles of Pom Skua, Bonxie and Little Gull eventually seen.