Greenland-type Wheatear - Orcombe Point.
Orcombe Point from 0630 - c40 Swallows through, 4 Wheatear, 6+ Whitethroats, 2 Meadow Pipits, 9+ Chiffchaffs, 4 Blackcaps and 5+ Willow Warblers.
Mudbank - 10 Black-headed Gulls, 12 Sandwich Terns, 1 Arctic Tern (upriver at 1150), 12 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 20 Pale-bellied Brent Geese, 3 Redshank and 1 male Red-breasted Merganser.
Yesterday off there - 20 Whimbrel and 27 Sandwich Terns. My first Whitethroat of the year on a very quick visit to Orcombe.
This afternoon I broke my no twitching rule and popped up to Durleigh Reservoir in Somerset for the Whiskered Tern - a favourite species of mine that I've not seen in the UK for 20 years (I saw James Diamond's Exe bird on 9/5/05 and before that - one on the Camel estuary, Cornwall on 10/5/95 and one on the Hayle estuary on 19/6/89.
Mudbank - 10 Black-headed Gulls, 12 Sandwich Terns, 1 Arctic Tern (upriver at 1150), 12 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 20 Pale-bellied Brent Geese, 3 Redshank and 1 male Red-breasted Merganser.
Yesterday off there - 20 Whimbrel and 27 Sandwich Terns. My first Whitethroat of the year on a very quick visit to Orcombe.
This afternoon I broke my no twitching rule and popped up to Durleigh Reservoir in Somerset for the Whiskered Tern - a favourite species of mine that I've not seen in the UK for 20 years (I saw James Diamond's Exe bird on 9/5/05 and before that - one on the Camel estuary, Cornwall on 10/5/95 and one on the Hayle estuary on 19/6/89.
Sat on a buoy when I arrived and nobody else was around. After a few minutes it started dip-feeding amongst c80+ Sand Martins. I'd almost forgotten just how stunning a species it is. I watched it for about half an hour as it continued feeding, even in torrential rain. I left as the rain intensified and the bird had started flying around really high up, by which time a few other birders had arrived.
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