It's been a long time since Jimmy & I ventured away from our local birding area & we have not been able to travel in one car with Brian for over a year now, that is still the case but the pull of a lifer in Barcombe cross East Sussex & the lifting of some covid restrictions was to big a pull. So in the car just after 4 am on Sunday we set off to find the White-throated Sparrow that had been around for some time now. On arrival at 6, 30 am we join about 8 other birders in a small picnic area & set up to watch a table that had a small amount of seed on it. The bird had been feeding on here over the last few days. We had to wait over an hour & we were getting a bit worried that we had left it too late when the Sparrow flew down onto the branches by the table & then dropped down onto the floor before flying off, it was 20 minutes before it returned & this time landed on the bench & then started to feed on the table. A cracking little bird to give both of us another lifer. We have missed a few this year along with a lot of other people so this felt really good to just be out enjoying what we love doing. Not too far away, a Little Bunting has been seen at Warnham nature reserve, we have seen a few of these but being so near we had to go for a year tick & boy do we need some of them. We had to wait till 10 o, clock for the reserve to open but it was well worth it when we get great near views of the Bunting & while watching it we get another year tick when a Marsh Tit comes to the feeders. so only 3 ticks one being a lifer but just so nice to be out birding again.
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| The Little Bunting |
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| White-throated Sparrow |
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| Sparrow again. |
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