Every now and then you see a piece of bird news that really does make you stop in your tracks and proclaim expletives to yourself (or sometimes out loud). Of course this is usually some ridiculously rare and stunning looking individual that is inaccessible. Occasionally it is a lesser rarity, but completely out of context or in a non-sensical location. Cory's Shearwater at Rutland Water on a flat-calm day in November for example ........
As it happens I was able to leave work early today, and so I headed off to RW where my twitching sucess record is heavily weighted on the dip side. But not today - what a bird! And what a compete tart I am for not only gaining a fantastic County tick, but a full British tick to boot. Great find by
Andy Mackay, and there will no doubt be some great photos on the tinterweb in due course.
3 comments:
Whaaaaaaat? Haha, the heck is a Cory's doing there? Now? Just how? Site first presumably?
What it was mainly doing was shearing itself majestically onto my list. Yesterday. No sign today so it must have noted the lack of squid at RW during the night. Certainly a first for VC55, and as far as I understand only 3rd British inland record. Incredible.
I would have loved to been a fly on the wall Skev when the Cory's came into Andy's scope.
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