Friday, 12 September 2014
Chat double
Looked at the cracking Yellow Wag flock on Biggy Common this lunchtime - its up around the 55 birds mark! As I was there I thought I'd just check the fencelines for errant chats. BOOM! A Whinchat and a Stonechat together. Nice. I think I can claim the Whinchat as 'new' as none have been see there for the last couple of days according to my sources.
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No birds there for the two days previous - or only negative news at least from several people who looked. And after all I have been looking in that spot for them this autumn anyway ref Lesser Spot in Pegnut! ;0)
ReplyDeleteWhich Caspian Gull are you talking about - the probable adult or juv/1w MJP had over the weekend...
ReplyDeleteAs far as I knew there were NO Whinchats left on Biggleswade Common - two separate people told me they'd been down there and looked for them without success. That is two days of NO Whinchats being seen there. Therefor I go down there to look for Yellow Wags on the Friday, just so happen to peer across to one of the fence lines and see a chat. It was too far off for me to id so we walk round the side of the farm for a better view - it was a Stonechat. Lovely. However then another bird pops up next to it - a Whinchat. That, in my book, is a self-found bird.
ReplyDeleteAnother thing - Whinchats, when they are at a place are pretty easy birds to see don't you think? So if someone goes to look for them, especially where I saw mine, they would certainly see it - its not a huge area after all, its the size of a football pitch. So I am pretty confident the bird I found was a 'new in' bird, especially as a Stonechat was with it and hadn't been seen previously either. Any other holes you want to try and pick?
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