Spotted Flycatcher

Working at home today; fortunately home is a grand total of 1 minute by bike from where Dawn Balmer found a pair of Spotted Flycatchers whilst she was doing a Bird Atlas 2007-11 Timed Tetrad Visit this morning! Not new for the BirdTrack Challenge (Andy Clements had one land in front of him whilst he was lunching al fresco in mid-May) but my first on the reserve. It was really encouraging to hear that they were gathering nesting material when Dawn found them this morning.

For Darren's challenge-within-a-challenge that's 121 for my Nunnery Lakes year list, 139 in total.

Director leads by example

After keeping his powder dry in terms of BirdTrack Challenge additions (or being 2 days behind everyone else, depending which way you look at it), BTO Director Andy Clements chipped in with the vital contribution of a Spotted Flycatcher this lunchtime. 126 OTL, the lead retaken and a potentially very tricky grip-back secured.

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Today's Spotted Flycatcher brings us up to 123. Andy Schofield pulls another out the bag from his office window at the Gatehouse.

There's been a Little Gull regularly on Derek's over the last few days. Just need to be lucky from the Plateau this evening...