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Sometimes birding like…….. not every day is bird filled with them falling out the sky or thousands in very bush. So it’s good to be able to appreciate some of the more frequently seen species such as this Common Moorhen. I love a Moorhen. Super sexy bird and a big migrant. I used live picking them up in

August birding be like…….

So young Samuel finds a juvenile Pallid Harrier at Rainham Marshes the 2nd London but does a bunk….. we head over there and the heavens open! It’s dramatic weather and the rain didn’t last too long. Pallid Harrier 1, DDL et al 0 next time - well done Sam

This is St James’s Park, London. The purple blob is a balloon. This is important because…

1. Part of reason why i don’t like ballon’s (plastic stuff innit).

2. I THOUGHT THIS WAS GOING TO BE A GREY-HEADED SWAMPHEN!!! (or Purple Swamphen in old or new money depending on what it was called before the split and then lumping, I’ve lost track)

Well I was gutted but that’s birding. Sometimes it’s bingo and other times it’s like a slow old train not getting anywhere too fast. You’ve gotta learn to enjoy those days too

I don’t always jump on it, the old twitching game. And I have been on the reporting front for a few weeks so itching to get a bit further afield. Along the M40 and I’m in a field waiting for a Long-tailed Shrike. The 2nd (? I think the recent Scottish bird is considered to be the same bird but not 100%) for the UK and after Western Isles bird where some twitchers were left stranded on a broken down boat between the mainland and the bird…. The bird showed well but didn’t call. I know it has and I’ve sound recorded them before in India so would have been nice to record it again but that is ok. Also present a few Whinchat, Common Redstart and Corn Bunting nice!

Back to the beautiful old patch of Walthamstow Res❤️ I met up with Kabir Kaul for our annual meet up. Sam O'Donnell had found a Pied Flycatcher the day before (thank you) and it was still present by the old paddock east of No5 reservoir. It took a while, three sweeps before we found it and then BINGO! This sexy flycatcher was there. Typically sitting still for ages and then getting active. Lovely. My third for the site. I had one in 1996 and 1997 so thirty years since my first! What a great day

Birding be like ………..

Birding be like……