A female Ring Ouzel at the base of the estuary this morning was a very welcome addition for my Flintshire Odyssey and was the cherry on top of an excellent morning for Flintshire ticks with Yellow Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat and Grasshopper Warbler all safely home and hosed too.It didn’t look to happy in all honesty, cowering under some gorse for a little while before eventually edging out for a few minutes when it wore the sort of resigned grimace often demonstrated by people who try and go on a beach holiday in Skegness.
If it hadn’t been for the encouragement of this migrant, then I would probably have packed in early, as whilst the ridiculously cold May morning ensured an excellent morning for the sailors pratting around on the boating lake, it had one nameless birder resorting to gloves!!
Still, the steely grey sky did make the four Yellow Wagtails present around the two small reservoirs look even more mint in their breeding plumage and a couple of reeling Groppers, plus a singing Lesser Whitethroast buried deep in the bowels of the herbage completed an cracking couple of hours.
Shotton 02.05.10
1 Ring Ouzel (female)
4 Yellow Wagtail
1 Lesser Whitethroat
2 Grasshopper Warbler
8+ Wheatear
1 GC Grebe
2 Kestrel
Until later.
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