Now that was an unusual day.
It started of rather samey with me and Elis trying hard to catch up with everything we needed to do leading up to our trip to the USA on Thursday. However, when Elis discovered that there was a Grey Phalarope near Clevedon in Avon things took on a new urgency. There were two very good reasons for us to try and see this bird, one, it would be a lifer for Elis and the other, it would save us about £1,000 by saving us a trip to Iceland for Wader Quest.
After a bit of argy-bargy on twitter, which I still haven't exactly got my head around, and some helpful comments from David Pritchard @birdfossil, Rob Jones@ Glambirder, our old friend Oliver Simms@ OSimmsBirding and directions from Jason Williams@Clevedonbirder we set off, more in hope than anger so to speak.
Cont...
http://www.waderquest.org/2012/11/the-1000-grey-phalarope.html
It started of rather samey with me and Elis trying hard to catch up with everything we needed to do leading up to our trip to the USA on Thursday. However, when Elis discovered that there was a Grey Phalarope near Clevedon in Avon things took on a new urgency. There were two very good reasons for us to try and see this bird, one, it would be a lifer for Elis and the other, it would save us about £1,000 by saving us a trip to Iceland for Wader Quest.
After a bit of argy-bargy on twitter, which I still haven't exactly got my head around, and some helpful comments from David Pritchard @birdfossil, Rob Jones@ Glambirder, our old friend Oliver Simms@ OSimmsBirding and directions from Jason Williams@Clevedonbirder we set off, more in hope than anger so to speak.
Cont...
http://www.waderquest.org/2012/11/the-1000-grey-phalarope.html