This morning I had a bright idea, worth reporting because I don't have many. The thought was; maybe the Twites only flew off to feed somewhere and would be back in the same spot this morning.
I arrived at 07:00 to find that Joe had had pretty much the same thought. He was scanning through a small party of Linnets on the spit bank off the causeway. I hadn't even seen any Linnets yesterday, although Joe assured me they had been with the Twites when Matt had made his find. The Linnets were kind of behaving themselves, never flying far, but also keeping partially hidden in the vegetation. We reckoned on a count of 26, but I can't honestly say we looked at every one in each scan. However, after an hour we probably had scrutinised each bird, and nothing looked like anything other than a Linnet.
Happily there was a distraction. At the far end of Windmill I noticed a dark duck and wondered if it might be a Scoter. I took a quick photo and was surprised to discover it was actually my first Goldeneye of the year. I got Joe on it, but we then turned back to the Linnets to resume the grilling.
About ten minutes later, with my scope now gaining some use on the Linnets, I thought I'd quite like to have a better look at it. But it had gone! That's what I call a jammy record shot.
During the time we were there we noted among other things the Green Sandpiper, a few Teal, and Snipe, a few R N Parakeets flying over, up to six Skylarks and 150 Woodpigeons migrating over head, and the now expected sight of a Little Egret.
It's been a very mild day, and is the last GMS date tonight. So I'll be adding a moth supplement tomorrow morning.
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