We get to 10 o'clock & the pager tells us that a Serin was still showing at the northeast end of the main car park at Gunners park near Southend in Essex, it's only a short trip for us, so we give a quick call to see if Brian can get home from work to come with us & he tells us to meet him at 10.45 inside an hour we pull into the park main car park.
The signs are not good when we are told that the bird has not been seem for a long time despite there being a fair number of people looking for it.
We head up to the beach just to have a look around & hope that the Serin had moved down that way, not much doing so we head back up to the main group of birders & get lucky when we see the bird on a bush & it is joined by a second bird to give really great views to us all.
After the birds flew off to another part or the park we head off to Westcliff & see at least 10 Med Gulls for a year tick, we also see hundreds of Dunlin, a few Turnstone, Redshank &,Sandling also seen.
Before we go home it's off to Wallasea where we see the best view of a Rough-legged Buzzard that we have ever had. A Short-eared Owl puts in a brief appearance.
A very large flock of Linnets pass over head, Corn bunting also about.
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| Med Gulls |
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Just a bad record shot |
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