Another quick post about a couple of twitches that I've been on recently. The first was fairly local, well in the East of the county of Leicestershire for - and getting more scarce - a Turtle Dove. I was with one of my birding mates, Dave Gray. On arriving at the site we decided to split up, and after half an hour of meeting up again, Dave had heard it at the church. Leaving Dave there and walking back to where we started, I first heard the distinctive call - and there it was sitting on a tv ariel! a quick call to Dave and we were both watching this now very rare bird for Leicestershire.
The second twitch, well there was a bit more to this. On Satuarday 6th of June a Western Reef Heron, a first for Britain, was found in the Foryd area in North Wales. There was no way I could go, as me and the wife were getting ready for a coach trip to Scotland on the Sunday. The bird was relocated on the Sunday and showing well at Caernarfon.
The bird showed well all week, so I thought I'd have a chance of seeing the bird the following Sunday as we came back from our Scotland trip on the Satuarday13th.
Though there were a couple of reports of the bird on the 13th, they turned out to be erroneous, so I thought this one had slipped through the net for me.
Fast forward to Wednesday17th June, mid morning a report came of the bird being relocated at Conway RSPB.
We were out shopping when the news broke, so it was straight home, unpack the shopping, and 3 hours later I was watching Western Reef Heron - as I said, a first for Britain, but what a bird.
The images are not the best you'll ever see but records images of a great twitch
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As always thanks for stopping by
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