It's only just over 30 miles from home so no problem there, we arrive & find the big pair of gates that take us to park the car just inside them, it's just a short walk down to the woods.
We spend 4 hours just walking around the woods, sitting down from time to time so it was easier to look up at the top of the trees in the hope of spotting the Lesser.
We here Green & Great calling & drumming but the Lesser doesn't want to come out to play today.
We meet up with a couple of birders & have a good old talk & it turns out that one had seen Dave B on Sunday while here & Dave had seen the target bird within minutes of turning up near the car park how lucky is that,
Plenty of Coal, Long-tailed, Great,& Blue Tits, also many Treecreeper's & the odd Nuthatch seen & heard.
Before the other birders had turned up Jimmy had heard a Tawny Owl Call, later on I also pick up a call & we mention it to the other fellows & one of them knows where it is likely to be as he has seen it before.
So we take a walk into the trees & we pick the bird out with ease very nice,that's two Tawy Owls in a couple of weeks, after the one we saw at Abney park a fortnight ago. Then we here what we hope is the Lesser but it's only a quick drumming & we don't see any movement so although we all think it was the Lesser we will not call it as a tick. Still a very nice few hours spent in some good company & not to far to travel home.
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| About as good as I could get very nearly got the face. |
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| One of the many Treecreepers |
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