13th March - Not as exciting as some years gone by

I was out by 07:00, perhaps my subconscious wouldn't allow a rare bird anniversary to pass?

LFGP was pretty quiet, 75 Wigeon, 10+ Teal, 2 Goldeneye, which flew off North, 1 Common Gull, but little else to mention.

At Lavell's 1 Little Egret at Teal Scrape, at Bittern 10-12 Teal, 1 pair Shoveler, 1 Water Rail, 2 Cetti's calling, 3-4 Snipe hiding. In the car park field a singing Chiffchaff might have been a spring arrival, 5 Redwing and then a lone pipit North, hopefully just a Meadow, was the lot.

So back to the nineteen eighties, 12th 1983 at 07:18, 18 Brent Geese went over, 13th 1984 at 07:03 an Avocet flew over BSL, nearly landed on Sandford and Lavell's, then flew back to BSL and landed for a few moments, before being flushed by a dog walker at 07:13 (there's a surprise).

Then 13th 1986, 2 male Common Scoter were found on BSL in the afternoon, a single 22nd & 23rd 1996 and another single 18th 2004.

What has happened to spring pipit passage?

Rock Pipit : March 2nd, 11th & 12th 1983, 29th 1991, 2nd 3rd 1992, 20th 1998.
Water Pipit : March 15th, 16th & 17th 1981, 15th & 20th 1982, 10th, 11th, 12th & 16th 1983, 10th 1984, 30th 1986, last recorded 21st & 22nd 1992!