While the rest of the Twitchers were racing down the Motorway like headless chickens to Somerset for the Hudsonian Godwit that had come all the way from South America, me and Dave opted for a more peaceful day, Dave had been working nights so had only had a couple of hours sleep, would of been dangerous to drive all that way to somerset and back, would of been a lifer for both of us of course being only the third bird in Britain and the first for 30 years but it's not all about the rarity of the bird, it's about enjoying the day which we did we had a lovely day in the Wyre Forest and I picked up a few lifers, and even though we never went for the Godwit was still nice because I had never heard of Hudsonian Godwit before so I was still learning about a new bird and looked up the differences between Hudsonian and Black- tailed Godwits.
We started saturday morning at Middleton Lakes was fairly quite there, but then we heard a Cuckoo I thought it would be another heard but not seen but Dave quickly located it, my first ever cuckoo so happy to have finally seen one after hearing them quite a few times :)
We then headed to the Wyre forest were I picked up another lifer Pied Flycatcher such a beautiful little bird black and white plumage and nice song :)
Then another bird I had been waiting along time to see was Dipper, we searched all along the stream and no sign we were about to give up, we were just standing there and then Dave said there one !!!! he was so excited to get me Dipper, lovely feeling when you see a bird you've longed for, had really nice views, so pretty brown plumage with white throat and breast and a chestnut colour belly and crown this one's belly looked very chestnut.
The Sunday we went to Nottingham for the Night Heron dream bird I have written a separate blog for the Night Heron and other birds seen at Attenborough. :)
We then headed to Cannock Chase nice walk round but no new birds but still nice with the sun shining, we then headed back to Tame Valley and went to Shustoke, the Grey Wagtails were showing well so we took the chance to photograph them, also at Shustoke was 2 common Sandpipers and 2 Common Terns :)
We then headed home and checked Seeswood on the way, was two Common Terns showing well out of all the Common Terns I have seen these were my best views they landed on logs in the water was great seeing them close and taking photos, also saw another Cuckoo which Dave spotted it landed so got lovely views through bins amazing too see another cuckoo :)
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