Three tick's in Hertfordshire

We get a call from Brian, Fancy going for the Yellow-browed Warbler at St Alban's in the park by the Cathedral.

We have a real problem paying for the car park it costs us 30 minutes of birding time, a couple of birders tell us they have just seen the Warbler and point us in the right direction to find it.

After we sorted paying for the car park we walked down the river to near the bridge and started searching, after an hour we did not find it.

We get talking to a fellow named Rupert and he was the birder that first reported the bird, after a while of looking, he finds the bird and puts us onto it.

Loads of views of the Warbler but the light is not too bright.

After we had seen enough of the Yellow-browed we headed up the road to the Cathedral and it was not too hard to get a view of the Black Redstart as it came onto the broken window by a black grill on the end of the building for an easy year tick.

A Peregrine is sitting on the roof and always nice to see.

It's only 7 miles to Lemsford Springs and with the frozen weather, we think a Jack Snipe may have come to the running water for food. The warden was at the gate because indeed a Jack Snipe had been seen and a few birders had beaten us there and he was letting a few people in at a time. By the time we got our stuff out of the car, it was our turn to head down to the second hide to find a few people in there, we were told where the Snipe had been seen, about an hour ago and it was a fair wait before we get a view of the bobbing bird.

So a short trip to Hertfordshire gets us three more year ticks. total up to 127-year ticks.

The Yellow-browed Warbler.