It's around 8 am & not very nice weather wise with rain in the air, we head to Sanctuary wood & spend a good couple of hours looking for the bird without any luck, another 2 fellows turn up & help the search, but still no show, we head up towards the centre building by the main entrance to have a look at the map board to find out where else to look when Jimmy hears & then See's the Firecrest in the nearest bush by the board, as soon as he calls me the bird flies over our head & settles on the top of a grave stone & then gives us some really good close views before flying off & out of sight.
so a nice year tick for both of us, a call from Brian tells us that he is home from work & do we want to head to Kent for the Richard's Pipit.
We meet just after 12 noon & on the way we decide to pop in at Elmley as a Wood Sandpiper is about, we drive up & down the track with no luck in finding the target, the place is full of Lapwings with the odd Redshank plus a couple of Marsh Harriers, double figures of Curlew with the odd Ring Plover also seen, a few Skylark & some Kestrel made up the numbers seen.
A longer stay than we planned as we all like being here, but we make our way to
Shell Ness which is 10 miles away to look for the Richard's Pipit. We take the car right to the bottom of the track over some very uneven ground to park a lot closer to where we need to be to find the bird. We can see a small group not to far away with the scopes out, on reaching them we find Dave B & he tells us he has heard the bird not to long ago. we don't see or hear the bird while Dave is hear, but as soon as he has gone the Pipit flies up over our heads calling as it flies, not a great view but a ticks a tick.
A quick look in at Capel Fleet gives us our first Barn Owl of the year & the quick look in turns in to us staying till the light goes when another couple of Owls give us really good displays.
We have had a great day with 3 more year ticks in the bag.
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