With Brian working & us needing a Barred Warbler for a year tick Jimmy & myself are up & out by 5 AM & by 6 we are looking at the Hawthorn trees at Staines moor on the right of the second bridge as you walk north. It turns out to be quite a long walk before we find the right spot that the bird had been seen for the last few days.
Only three other people on site when we arrive, one of them being Dan a nice fellow that I meet for the first time in Hertfordshire when looking for a L S Woodpecker, really nice to meet up with him again.
It's not to long before we see the target in flight first & then it drops onto the bramble bush growing around the Hawthorn tree, it is only a short view but long enough to get a great look at it.
Then we watch as it makes it's way down the row of Hawthorns & bramble that gives us one more look at it as it very briefly lands & sits before dropping out of sight.A nice looking 1st winter bird.
Neville turns up Plus John & some more familiar faces making it about 30 or more birders looking for it but over the next two hours before we head off home the Warbler doesn't show, that just proves that the early bird really dose get what he's looking for.
Year list now sitting on 248
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