Rustic Bunting (Scott Reid)
Rustic Bunting (Scott Reid)
Rustic twitch in the pine belt
Serin (Scott Reid)
Serin (Scott Red)
Early arrival, early success
In the bag selfie
Brambling
Stunning fauna
Squire perched high
The Skipper
Jam & Cream the way to go
Plenty of visitors
More fauna
End of another busy day
Just when we thought
the rarities had ended for the week, news broke late the previous evening of a
Rustic Bunting up at Longstone.
Access sounded very
difficult as the bird was on private land with roaming cows & an owner also had a gun ! We marched up and met the finder Will who explained
where viewing was possible. Just that moment a Serin flew straight past us at
height calling. A great start to the day.
We opted to try and
get a spot from within the pine belt to view the field in which the Chaffinch flock
which it was associating with were feeding. The field dropped away from us so
you couldn’t actually see the birds on the ground. We all kept working our way
through the flock each time they returned to the elms. Suddenly one of the
birders we see regularly had the bird in her scope and shouted us to see if we wanted
to come and view it. We were like Colin Jackson over the high hurdles but over
trees to reach her to get our first view. Next job was to get it in our own
scopes to get pro-longed views.
This took about ten
minutes when the Squire found this beauty and the extra magnification of his
scope granted us amazing views. This stunner was Reed Bunting in size but had
white wing bars, pink beak and was certainly more reddish. The bird had probably travelled from
north Europe and breeds in swampy forests in south east Asia.
We also record two
Brambling in the morning and then found a group of three when we returned late
afternoon.
The rest of the day we
plotted our way up the Telegraph Road only adding a few Fieldfare before
hitting the coastal path where we added a Red-throated Diver, Razorbill, Guillemots,
GBBC, a Greenshank, 2 Grey Heron and few Stonechat.
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