LITTLE BUNTING at Content Farm

LITTLE BUNTING showing well in fields at Content Farm

  925, Higgo and I were at Porth Hellick in the strong SE at first light to look at an interesting Wigeon that we saw yesterday just before dark. That interesting duck turned out to be a Wigeon. The wind was blowing everything all over the shop and the only bird of interest was the Yellow-browed Warbler at Holy Vale.

 The only birds at Newford Duckpond were the Yellow-browed Warbler and the 2 'tristis' type Chiffchaff. Nearby in the fields there were 3 Black Redstart including a stonking male. 2 Firecrest were at Jac-a-bar with 3 Whimbrel at Bar Point. A cetacean was discovered yesterday washed up at Bar and was thought to be a possible porpoise. When I stubbled across it, I thought it was a Striped Dolphin.  However later, Ren seeing the photos thought it was something else and he is working on it with Paul Semmons.

Cracking male Black Redstart at Trenowth

2 Firecrest were at Jac-a-bar

2 'tristis' type Chiffchaff were Newford duckpond

Dead Dolphin sp washed up on Bar Any ideas?

  At 13.00 I was at Content searching through the fields. A male Merlin went through and put up 30+Meadow Pipit, 25+Chaffinch, 12 Linnet and 2 Brambling.  All the birds were in the air above me and one went 'tic' It had to be a LITTLE BUNTING, but when all the birds had settled back down in the field, I had no idea where it was. I carried on through the field and all the finches flew up into the Elms. A quick scan and there it was. I quickly got some footage in the poor light and called the guys. Everyone arrived and the bunting performed very well, calling at times, just in front of us with an imm/fem Black Redstart.

LITTLE BUNTING

Imm/fem Black Redstart being blown all over the shop

Up to 2 Brambling were feeding with the bunting. The dull light didn't help the photography

Sam Clare, at the front, all the way from Staffs.

Looking very choppy at in The Roads

A great song by Jason Collett 'Somehow'