With no news of the Whipsnade Thrush on Thursday we thought we had lost our chance of a good lifer not far from home.
With all the election stuff on the television on Friday we never took a lot of notice of bird news until later in the day when we saw that the bird had been seen on & off all day, it's now to late to go, so we decide to just get up & go on Saturday morning in the hope that it had stayed around.
As we pull into the car park lots of birding pals are heading towards the Zoo entrance.
After the Zoo fee is payed we head down to the pig enclosure & another lifer is ticked within minutes.The Black-throated Thrush is first seen in a well stocked berry bush & then drops down into the pig pen for a few minutes before flying off over the cafe calling as it went before landing on top of a large tree with a bare branch at the top of it giving great scope views before flying a long way out of sight.
It's a grey old day & now for the next hour the rain gets heavy, so the crowd head for cover.
Brian breaks cover as the rain starts to ease off & head off over a foot bridge & gives us a call to inform us that he had relocated the bird,Jimmy & I pass on the information to the now large group of birders some had not seen the bird yet so a mad chase is on as they all scramble over the bridge & are all rewarded as Brian still has the bird in view. It's in a distant berry bush but did drop down to drink
from a distant puddle for a short time before going out of sight not to be seen again for the time we stayed here.We spend a couple of hours watching the Zoo animals before heading off for home after a nice twitch with many birding friends.
 |
| The Black-throated Thrush |
 |
| Just a few of the zoo animals as we walked around |
 |
| White Rhino |
 |
| Wolverine |
 |
| A Red Panda |
No comments:
Post a Comment