Wouldn't we all. There's quite a lot of evidence that a lot of birds cross the channel from counts on the Channel Islands, Start Point, Portland Bill etc. but not many ringing recoveries from further south so it's a bit of an unknown. They're more migratory on the continent.

Thanks Julian. The top 5 UK counts on Trektellen of woodpigeon are all from Gwent as you can see here - www.trektellen.org/species/reco...
I think movements of this size are prob. annual. I'm confident that this is the best migration bottleneck for this species in the UK + one of the best in Europe

Thanks Stuart 😊

I know. It would have been great to see the little skulker

and the yellowlegs, at Truro 3 of 3

and the duck, at Helston 2 of 3

Ok thanks