An unexpected second chance presented itself this morning. Joe Owens found two juvenile Little Stints on the Windmill Pool shoreline, almost certainly the birds seen by John Oates on Wednesday which were assumed to have gone after they were reluctant to settle. It is surprising that no-one saw them on Thursday, but they are small, the reservoirs large, and I'm not sure how much coverage there was.
Anyway I was off like a shot and saw them immediately on arrival. A few years ago one stayed there for a week, but I was besotted by Morton Bagot at the time and didn't twitch it. I've regretted that decision ever since...until today.
It seems ages since I last saw a Little Stint.
I couldn't spare much time this morning, but did count 23 Meadow Pipits, five Siskins. and about 20 hirundines of all three typical species before I had to leave.
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