Meet up with Brian & at 5am & head to Minsmere, a Barred warbler & a Wryneck have been about for a couple of days & Brian needed both for a tick, Jimmy & myself had seen both last week,Brian had to do something called work so he missed them when we had them at Wanstead & Staines moor.
Well before 7 we are looking over the bushes at Whin hill, after an hour along with a few other early risers we give up & head to the main car park & walk the main track up to the beach, on the way we see a flock of over twenty Bearded tits fly about over the reeds, a few land to give good scope views.
Once on the beach it's a walk down to the sluice where a good number of birders had gathered looking for the B warbler, some had been looking since first light but it had not been seen.
So we scan all the bushes & pick out a couple of Redstart & many Whitethroat a few Lesser Whitethroat, the odd Wheatear, plenty of Stonechat a couple of Whinchat plus a large flock of Goldfinch pass over, but no sign of the Warbler over the next three hours we spent here.
Somebody posted as seeing the bird around the time we are here & at the place where we are all looking & nobody else managed to see it, seems a bit strange with so many people all watching over those bushes ( only saying).A quick look over the scrape gets us a few Spotted Redshanks, Godwits, Avocets, a single Snipe pops up, Ruff, Dunlin, Grey plover also seen Marsh harriers, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, make it a good morning birding.
The pager tells us that the Wryneck had just been seen so a quick walk back to the car for the short trip back to Whin hill.
A lot more people here now & it's only a short while before Brian gets his year tick, good views with the scope but to far for any good photos in fact the camera really never got going today for me.
A nice day without getting any new year ticks but a lot going on here today.
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