An 04:00 start on Saturday to undertake the 6 hours drive to Yorkshire in pursuit of a trio of rare birds and thankfully in company of my friend Dave Foot once again.
Beaten to the punch by the 'Birding Goths' it would seem (would loved to have met these people) at a gloomy Saint Aiden's Nature Reseve in Leeds, the only thing that was more gloomy was the lack of a recent sighting, on the day, of a
LONG-TOED STINT
which had been present for a few days prior to our arrival and only the 5th to have been recorded in Great Britain!
which had been present for a few days prior to our arrival and only the 5th to have been recorded in Great Britain!
To get the rest of the Bad News out of the way, that is the way it stayed not even getting a glimps, or a rumour from others, but there was still a few things of interest not least this massive
COAL SHOVEL
which, maybe inadvertantly, had formed this
which, maybe inadvertantly, had formed this
Nature Reserve in the first place.
BUCKET
Previously an open-cast Coal Mine with some forward looking person/s seeing it turned over to nature once exhausted of the commodity.
Other Birds of Interest included
the jaunty and numerous
BEARDED TIT
or
BEARDED REEDLING
along with
BLACK-TAILED GODWIT
with 
PART II
to come tomorrow.
Previously an open-cast Coal Mine with some forward looking person/s seeing it turned over to nature once exhausted of the commodity.
or
to come tomorrow.
