We have struggled to get any time to go out on birding trips of late, but when the Aquatic Warbler turned up in Upper Beeding we had to give it a go as all three of us needed the bird for a life tick. We left home late in the morning as we waited for the bird to be seen, It was nearly 9 o; clock when we left, but we got a trouble-free run and arrived around 10:40. We were able to park outside the local paper shop at the town centre that means we only have about half a mile to walk along the east side of the river Adur.
We soon join up with a few familiar faces, around 30 birders are watching a small Hawthorn bush. We get nothing for over an hour then the Warbler gets disturbed by a couple walking their dog and flies off the bush onto the floor and then flies over our heads and lands over the fence onto the grass for a few seconds then heads over the river then back towards the Hawthorn, we had not moved and got rewarded when it landed on dead hogweed and moved up to the top for great views of another lifer for all three of us.
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| The Aquatic Warbler |
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