Mark Batten
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Saw this bird yesterday and comes highly recommended.
Fabulous Wood Warbler pics Sue and Mick:t::t:
I got there too late in the day to see this, after doing Lakenheath RSPB (Suffolk:eek! for most of the day, photographing the Red-footed Falcon.
Were there any golden orioles at Lakenheath Penney ?
Regards Graham
No, and no reports of (as Dawn has said) but there are a couple of oriole sound alike blackbirds on the reserve!
Penny:girl:
Having neglected the patch a bit over the last few days (I do occasionally work! - but have still managed brief daily visits) I was glad to find some time today before going off for a long weekend.
Continuing round the patch I came across a wader on one of the working gravel pits. It wasn't the expected Little Ringed Plover, nor a Dunlin, which was my next thought, but a cracking Temminck's Stint! - an amazing patch find and valley tick for me!
Having neglected the patch a bit over the last few days (I do occasionally work! - but have still managed brief daily visits) I was glad to find some time today before going off for a long weekend. The low cloud and rain kept the hirundines down, but I couldn't turn up any Red-rumped ones (maybe I should have just taken pics and found one later on the camera...!) Warblers were hiding and a brief (patch first) Reed Warbler couldn't be coerced, unlike the Garden Warblers that positively reacted.
Continuing round the patch I came across a wader on one of the working gravel pits. It wasn't the expected Little Ringed Plover, nor a Dunlin, which was my next thought, but a cracking Temminck's Stint! - an amazing patch find and valley tick for me! Fortunately DA was not too far away and (hopefully!) has got some cracking pics! Added to this a fly by Turtle Dove shout (another patch first), that was four new patch birds in a few hours!
Bank holiday Monday produced another excellent record in the form of a dark Short-eared Owl found and photographed by DA, on the same morning as our first Cuckoo. Tuesday of last week had a fly through Marsh Harrier (another first), followed by two, too brief, Avocet and finally (eventually) Swifts on Friday!