American yellow Warbler, to see the old year out. ( Lifer )

We hoped the Yellow Warbler would hang around until the three of us could find the time to head off to see it.

So on the 27th Dec, we met up with Brian and set off to New Hythe in Kent, it's not a long journey, and on arrival, we parked and took the path to join around 200 birders already here.

We stood around for over four hours and I spoke to the boys about giving it up, we agreed to give it another half hour. time;s nearly up when the whole group started to move down the path at pace as someone had heard it. 

I took up a good spot and saw the target bird on a bush next to a large red container, it only sat there for a couple of minutes before flying up and over the container and heading back up to the Alder trees where we had all been standing for so long, it flicked about the trees and gave the very large crowd now numbing over 400 a short view of it. So well worth the time spent and a good day meeting loads of people we see from time to time on our trips.

Not able to get any photos of the bird but this is a small part of the massive crowd.

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