I’d visited this site once before for a Glaucous Gull in the seal colony on the way home from a twitch. But todays visit with Brendon and Ricky was for something much smaller and rarer. The bird in question was the UK’s 9th Black-faced Bunting. It’d been found on the Friday north of the car park and Saturday it was trapped and ringed 2 miles south and brought back to the car park to be released.
It showed briefly on and off for the rest of the day and so Sunday saw us there but despite giving it nearly 6 hours it wasn’t seen and we all left empty handed.
We were kept entertained though with 3 groups of Whooper Swan totalling 39 birds flying south, 2 juvenile Spoonbill, 6 Greenshank, Peregrine, Marsh Harrier and both Brent and Pink-footed Geese.
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