wolfbirder
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Sounds like a brilliant day, Nick! How often would you see a list like that in one day? Just wondering - of the rarer birds at Wells, did any of them give you views of more than a few seconds?
Nigel
Mate I found it seriously hard work! Many will scoff at that. There is still so much leaf cover, and my reactions are often just too slow.
The Firecrest eventually gave the best views - about a minute!
The 2 Pallas's were quite showy too but were hyper-active and I mean hyper-active, whilst I only saw the back end of the Hume's dropping into deep cover. Even the RF Bluetail took 2 hours for me to see and was unusually skulking. Got 30 second views eventually. The BRW was the toughest of all, as usual. The first 2 hours it led people on a merry dance, calling distinctively but then never emerging. Many had given up. But eventually pinned down to a small thicket of gorse at the base of a tree where it showed out in the open for a couple of seconds, and then a bit later for about 4-5 seconds. Hundreds of Goldcrests and many Robins made finding the goodies much harder.
So many great people though, faces you recognise, always helping. The parking tip helped a lot, but I never got round to Holkham at Lady Annes Drive, as I had spent 6 hours from 8.30am to 2.30pm getting acceptable views of the above birds.
But I'm totally knackered this morning, back-ache, blistered feet, sore knees, head ache, exhausted eyes. Its great to be getting old:smoke:
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