Sunday Twitching in Warks
This morning found us twitching Scaups from the road bridge at Lea Marston & Coton in the wind and drizzle and with poor visibility (it doesn’t get much better than this!! ;) ). Still with persistence, reasonable views of the Scaups eventually prevailed (year tick).
We then went to fields near Wilnecote Tip (between Dosthill and Kingsbury) where a Glaucous Gull was seen yesterday. Unfortunately there was no sign of it. Other large gulls present; LBBG, GBBG, Herring Gull, also a variety of Corvids feeding at the site and mobbing a Sparrowhawk (we also had a Sprawk over our house this morning). I later learned that the Glaucous had come in to roost at Coton.
Finally we went to Laundry Lane by Alvecote Pools to try our luck twitching Firecrests….our luck was in and one showed within 10 minutes of our arrival. Our fourth lifer of the year! It was a really active bird, busier than a Goldcrest and strikingly beautiful :)
Not at all bad going for a weekend that looked set to be a washout.