Tuesday 28 September 2010

What a Day!!!



Awful shots of Barred Warbler. Copyright Hicklywick


Yet more awful photos. Red-flanked Bluetail.

After a brief stint away offshore I was back in the office today. At lunch I decided to check out the wasteland near work. Straight away it looked good as birds were flying about all over the place. Robins were everywhere, a couple Goldcrests showed, a female Blackcap hid in brambles, a Redstart flitted through the site, we flushed 5 Redwing and a Snipe and 3 Siskins flew in. While following yet another Robin a large warbler flitted up and I soon got reasonable views to ID it as a Barred Warbler, a nice find for the site and Hicklywick snapped off a few record shots.

We then heard of a Red-flanked Bluetail at Corton, some 5 miles from work so after a meeting we set off there. We soon got great views of the bird, definately a bird I want to find one day. Also there we found a flock (8+) Bramblings, Snipe, a Knot, Blackcaps, dozens of Wheatears, Redwings etc as well as 26 Brent geese flying south. The area was packed with migrants! Definately taking tomorrow off. Unfortunately the day slowly went downhill soon after as Hicklywick started reciting his bird shitting list! Almost as long as his shit bird list! The only man I know who has Pallas's reed bunting, Dark-eyed junco and RFBluetail on his list but yet to see long-tailed tit! Tart!

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