About 40 or so birders were already here at 6 30, but it's not looking good with people already giving up the search down by the bird feeders & heading off, so not a good start to the day, after an hour or so the general opinion is the bird had gone, so it's back to the car to head off to Choseley when we see people running up the road in front of us, on asking what was going on we are told that a Bonelli's Warbler had been seen just up the road.
With the car parked up again we join a large group to search a Sycamore tree & get to hear it calling but with a lot of people saying that they had got it we are not sure it's our bird & some good birders around us feel the same. So feeling a bit down as two dips in a day is not good.
The warden then calls out that the bird was round the back of the car park, so we all shoot round & it's not long before we get some good views of another lifer for us, not the lifer we set out to get but really happy for this bird to save the day for us.
On arrival at Choseley drying barns we pull in just off the road by the bend & get to see over 20 Dotterell not to far into the field, the most I have ever seen in one go so well pleased to get a nice year tick here.
On now to Titchwell & pick out 2 Wood Sandpiper on the first scrape for another year tick, Geoff B tells us where to find the Temminck's Stint down by the first hide & we have no trouble in finding 2 along with Little Stint for two more ticks.On the way back a Whinchat sits up on a fence for another tick.
So five year ticks & a lifer gave us a long but happy day & we also picked out a Green Hairstreak for good measure.
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| Just a few of the Dotterell from distance |
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Hairstreak |
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