Matt Griffiths
ad. ♂ Blackcap
Hi Matt,
Sounds like it could be the same bird. The Grimley bird had a small white gap in the black tail band, worn wing markings and a fairly distinctive dusky nape/rear crown. It was last seen at Grimley at c10.30am then flew off SE but it had done that earlier and returned. There were no further reports from there but then one was at Throckmorton for just 3 minutes to 1.21pm when it flew off NE.
May be it was heading back towards Earlswood.......
Craig Reed also had a first-winter at Earlswood on the 10th.
Brian
Thanks Brian :t:. Another birder has also reported seeing a 1w Little Gull at Earlswood on the 18th (day before me), so does make it seem even more likely to be the same bird seen yesterday. I too saw the 1w that Craig found on 10th but unfortunately we only saw it in fading light, though impression I got was that this first bird was a different, neater-plumaged individual. It's times like this I wish I had a DSLR.
Matt