I will say it how it happened.
I was doing some work on the tool shed when a local birder (Kev and his Mom) came dashing up to me. Quite excitedly Kev announced that he had just had a singing 1st Summer Rosefinch in bushes around the car park. Stunned I phoned Dave (the only other Birder on site) who was wardening at the Flashes. He quickly arrived with a posse who had heard his excited announcement. We spread out all over the paths with a couple of the birds song playing after a good couple of hours it was a no show. There was no use in getting the news out as it would have been a waste of time and fruitless. There was enough people looking and listening and had it been relocated we would have organised a twitch.
Kev is an experienced birder and has seen the species before. He described the song before listening to the recording and described it as a young male that raised a slight crest when it sang. The bird was last along the causeway after which he came to get me. Over to you Kev for the description
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John