A Collared Flycatcher & a Crested Lark, one at Portland the other at Dunge!! I had a chance to leave very early this morning to go for these bird's with my birding mate Paul Barker! Sadly, as I was working last night & I aint got enough holiday to span the year to justify booking it off, coupled with a birthday bash later today, I had to very sadly, for the second time in a week, turn down Paul's kind offer!! (I had a chance to join him for the Gwent Subalpine Warbler too!!! - No doubt soon I shall go on a twitch this year with Paul!!)...
With not much time today to bird & quite a few 'ticks' still to nail I decided to check out VP (as usual), en route home from work. I did manage a surprise year tick on the way though, a lone Cuckoo in flight across the fields just past the Riverside Inn!! Now, I failed to see Cuckoo last year in Shrops., so it was great to get the bird this year, it also becomes the 14th species on my 2009 county year list that I didn't see on my county list last year!!! That in itself is quite impressive!... Well, I think so anyway...
Not a great deal at VP, a few Sedge Warbler now singingm plus a Garden Warbler in song, but little else... I'm quite pissed off at missing out on two major UK mega's today, but my twitching fate was sealed last year pretty much! I promised myself no sacrifices just 'for a bird'!! So, at least I'm sticking to it & very strangely for me, I'm being sensible... if only a little bit!! ;~)
Friday, 1 May 2009
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