Desert Wheatear at Abberton.




Desert Weatear

 

With Brian being away with his family for a birthday treat this weekend, Jimmy & I set out to get the Desert Wheatear at Abberton.

The bird has been seen all week, so fingers crossed it's still there today,when we get there we see one single birder who had just seen it, & tells us where to see it.
We are soon on to it in the car park hopping from post to post, we get some snaps of it but the light is not good so early in the morning.

 So we head off to Cudmore Grove C P,  to try for the Jack Snipe, it's about 9 miles away so not to far.

We head down the path to the scrape, & it's not to long before Jimmy picks out the Jack Snipe, this was a good spot by Jimmy as the scrape is packed with 100's of Teal, Wigeon, Black-Tailed Godwit,Geese,& at least 50 Common Snipe.

We both needed this bird for a year tick, so not a bad start as it's not 9 o'clock yet, a lifer at Abberton & a year tick here not bad.


Snow Bunting

 Off now to Stone Point as a Snow Bunting has been seen there, it takes a bit of finding, but find it we do, its a single bird so we have done well.
Also 3 Rock Pipit  are spotted at the same place.
Out on the mudflats are hundreds of Golden Plovers, some Ringed Plovers, Knot, Curlew, & Grey Plover.

Black- T Godwit

Looking over the fields we see 600 hundred Brent Geese, in amongst them 1 Pale-Bellied Goose is seen.
Heading back to Abberton for some better photos of the Wheatear, we stop & look over the causeway & I get another year tick in a Red-Crested Pochard, this is my 248th bird of the year, so 250 is looking good.



Deseert Whearear

  Back at Abberton the car park is packed & there are birders all over the place now, the bird is showing really well its not timid at all, so the photos are better now. Off home now well satisfied with how the day has gone. I hope Brian has had a great day as well, we missed him, but roll on next week.




 



 


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Desert Wheatear