Brookie's Diary

• Friday, August 1, 2008 - Lesser Whitethroat at Last!!

Another visit to Scout Dyke, a club area reservoir produced the bird I have been hunting all summer. Whilst watching a  good number of  Willow Warblers which were giving off there contact calls out came this bird that was clearly a  Lesser Whitethroat, great joy,  it was only brief but I enjoyed it,  the bird I had been looking for all summer. Other birds around the reservoir that day were Swallows, House Martins hawking for insects in the fields, whilst on the water Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Tufted Ducks and Mallards. The field fringes held Yellowhammer, Magpie, Jackdaw and Crow could all been seen. In the bushes Robin, Blue Tit, Blackbirds and Coal Tit. It was also a day of butterflies with Small Copper, Large White, Gatekeepers, Meadow Browns and a Speckled Wood Picture above Speckled Wood

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