A mystery bird sung from bushes just prior to the Wath Ings hide this morning. It gave two or three bursts about once every five minutes but despite extensive searching we could not find it. After about an hour it stopped singing and may have moved on although the hope is that it shut up due to the very cold strengthening wind and may still be around. The nearest I could describe it to was like a very musical Lesser Whitethroat which I
suppose it just possibly could have been as a trawl through All the Bird Songs of Britain and Europe seemed to yield no closer match than Arctic Warbler. About as likely as a Red-necked Phal' in early May I guess!
Birds that were identified with confidence included 16 Dunlin, 2 Turnstone, Knot, LRP and Med' Gull on Wader Scrape whilst at least 200 House Martins were over Wath Ings.
The drake Garganey was still at Adwick Wash this morning.
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| Turnstone on the Wader Scrape this morning - John Hewitt |
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| Knot on the Wader Scrape this morning - John Hewitt
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