Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Deer Park

The Isabelline Wheatear was in the same area 1000-1030 - it was feeding along the cliff top above the main seal pupping beach. I met a visiting Canadian birder with a longer UK list than me and we watched it together. Alas my photo (with my point n'shoot) was a dud, as the bird had a common wheatear body double who hopped onto the rock I had pointed at and I only discovered I had the wrong bird when I got home. There were also 3 Greenland wheatears in the SE corner near the kissing gate, a 1st autumn reed warbler on some scrub, a whitethroat in the scrub, and a spotted flycatcher or two by the main gate onto the Deer Park

Like Clive I gave the East Blockhouse area at West Angle a good going over two days ago and found lots of birds but nothing out of the ordinary - just lots of meadow pipits, skylarks,linnets, goldfinches, dunnocks, chiffchaffs, wrens, robins and a solitary wheatear.