Rufous-tailed Robin records in the UK have been rarer than hen’s teeth with only 4 records and all of them being very elusive and bar one in Norfolk on far flung islands. So when one was found in Flamborough,E.Yorkshire things went crazy. Views were exceptionally tricky being only viewed in a ditch from a fence and then only showing for seconds every few hours. If you were lucky you saw it within 20 minutes while others up to 9 hours if you weren’t in the right viewing spot.
But after a few days it suddenly decided to show off on the path and scrub above the ditch and as it’d spent over an hour on Tuesday morning doing just that I headed up to be there for first thing Wednesday. Unfortunately for me despite being the 6th person on site the early part of the night was clear and so it most likely had sodded off. And if rumours are to be believed apparently some birders were shining torches into its roosting bush after dark Tuesday evening to see it which may have sped up its departure.
So 4 hours seeing nothing more exciting than a (albeit) my first ever Northern Bullfinch and some year tick White-fronted Geese overhead I decided to head off. A year tick Tree Sparrow was in the car park and within a minute of parking up at Bempton Cliffs I had cracking views of my 12th UK Pallas’s Warbler.
The last notable bird of the day was as I was driving down the M18 near Thorne/Hatfield Moors when 8 Whooper Swan flew over the car (7 adults + 1 Juv).
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