Farnboro John
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I went with Roy to see the Northern Waterthrush at Heybridge on Wednesday when the weather forecast was for a bright sunny day. We missed the early show principally because I wasn't interested in seeing the bird until there was some decent light, and then had to wait until 1100 for it to show: it was a cold wait and we were just beginning to become uneasy about our car park ticket expiring before we saw the bird when it flew in calling. In retrospect it had flown over, calling twice, mid morning but nobody picked up on it at that point, including us.
It fed and moved on along its beat in the creek very quickly, moving out of the bright sunshine into the deep shadow by the sluice unfazed by birders and the susurration of cameras.
It fed back along the left side briefly then flew to nearby bushes and vanished. One birder said he'd seen it go from there back to the left side of the creek but it seems everybody else missed that....
We then left. It didn't show again until 1625, so we were quite glad we didn't stay!
Perhaps the last fallout from last Autumn's Yankfest?
John
It fed and moved on along its beat in the creek very quickly, moving out of the bright sunshine into the deep shadow by the sluice unfazed by birders and the susurration of cameras.
It fed back along the left side briefly then flew to nearby bushes and vanished. One birder said he'd seen it go from there back to the left side of the creek but it seems everybody else missed that....
We then left. It didn't show again until 1625, so we were quite glad we didn't stay!
Perhaps the last fallout from last Autumn's Yankfest?
John
