So a bit of a surprise when my phone goes & it's Brian who is on the way over to pick us up for a short trip to Walthamstow Reservoir to look for the Little Bunting that the local birders had got yesterday.
It's only a short drive & we arrive in the car park to be told it's not open till 9.30 but with our permit it's all go.
only a short walk to East Warwick res where we meet up with Stuart & Harry. We scan from the North bank of East Warwick where we are joined by a few more birders,a Sparrow Hawk perched in a large tree above the bushes we are looking in stops any real activity, but we need the Hawk for a year tick & we do get a great view in the scope of it.
After a while the Hawk flies off & some Buntings start to fly into the bushes but it's a good hour before Brian spots what he thinks might be our bird & we all move back down to the path & yes Brian has it in the scope sitting in the bush to give everybody a great view.
Brian is the only one of us to bring his camera & he gets a record shot for us but the light is very bad.
On the way out we pop up to the other reservoir for Brian to get a year tick when we see a male Scaup. So a nice easy couple of ticks & back home before 10 am for breakfast.
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| Brian's record shot |
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| Last year's Great Barford bird |
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| 2015 Cardiff bird that we all saw. |
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