After our good visit to Norfolk the previous weekend myself and Brendon must’ve used most of our good luck up as todays trip to Suffolk certainly didn’t go to plan!
For the entire week the first news out on the bird alerts was of a juvenile Black Stork showing ridiculously well in a ditch at Boyton Marsh RSPB so with this we drove up and had just gone past Colchester FC’s ground when there was a no sign message. With that I turned round and headed to Abberton Reservoir. Here we spent a couple of hours trying to spot the previous days Temminck’s Stint but failed miserably. Then whilst still in the hide news emerged that the stork was back so off we went.
We arrived in good time and started walking the 1.5 miles to where to view but as we passed a birder about half way he gave us the news it’d flown off north again! We continued on and the spent another hour staring at nothing. I was the alerted to the distress calls of gulls above and saw them mobbing something. Thinking it was the stork I lifted my bins and to my surprise I saw myself looking at a year tick dark morph Honey Buzzard! We watched it for a couple of minutes before it drifted off north.
Another hour passed before we headed for home having dipped the stork. 90 minutes after we left it came back and has showed well since and the Temminck’s was seen again later in the day. So an all round bad day at the office apart from the Honey Buzzard.
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