A very grey overcast day and not too many birds, and not much flying, but on todays list some birds that's worthy of a mention.
So John and I went to our furthest point (San Felipe) and Birded back to GA. Through the back roads and tracks and trails.
3 or 4 Spoonbill, 5 Bluethroat. A few Common Sandpiper, Common Snipe, Penduline Tit, 4/5 Kingfishers, there seem to been an arrival of Stone Chat and today we must of seen 20 + and a similar number of Southern Grey Shrike. The usual Marsh Harrier's showed up, and only 1 distant Booted Eagle, also a lone Common Kestrel. An Iberian Green Woodpecker sat up on a post for a little while which was okay.
The usual suspects like Marbled Teal, Red knobbed Coot, big numbers of Little Egret, and Glossy Ibis and a large commotion of Common Coot, at San Felipe
San Felipe is now drained of water and there's plenty of mud so a decent wader should turn up? at some point, I was hoping for a Spotted Crake or Jack Snipe, but not today.
And after quite a few miles, it was slow, to say the least, saving grace was a Blue Rock Thrush across the road from the Monastery (La Marina) in a dead tree. And at El Pinet the best bit was the Tea and some Mcvities Biscuits with only some distant views of Stone Curlew. It was porbably the quietest its ever been.
So no Swallow's today untill I got home when I watched a a load of Common Swallow's heading south?
Plain Tiger butterfly, Scarce Swallow tailed seen.
And so a slow day for birds. Oh how I wish this October I was Birding on the Isles of Scilly, first for England's Blackburnian Warbler, found by my old mate John Judge, Pectoral Pipit, Red eyed Vireo, by Spider, ect and the morale of the story is effort, John Judge has Birded Bryher probably, for the last 25 years + in October, with little or no return and the same for my other mate Higgo (legend) who only birds Bryher. all you need is the self belief that one day dreams can comes true.
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| Blackburnian Warbler Bryher, Isles of Scilly. |
I should take a leaf out of there book and believe that one day. John and I will get lucky? Fingers crossed?
It's a mega of megas so well done John Judge
Happy days
Cheers Bryan
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