Bumped into DP up Persecution Road where we decided to have a crack at the Spotted Flycatcher I saw recently near Giants Tooth.
On the way there we got a cracking male Wheatear which was my first local area bird of the year!
We failed on the Flycatcher so then decided to go to the treeline end near the golf course.A Tree Pipit was singing in the former proven breeding area and continued to sing and display for some time during which it was seen perched on 3 occasions. A most welcome annual as I didn't clock one the previous year.
Others: WW, Blackcap, Chiffchaff,
2 Whitethroat ditto GSW. Singles Green Woodpecker, Jay & Reed Bunting, couple Mipit.
Mixenden Res was deadly just pr Tufted Duck & Dullards.
