Hello,
Today started with a gentle stroll from home to my patch, Pitsford Reservoir yielding views of a Little Stint, two Great White Egrets, seven Ruff, two Dunlin, a Yellow Legged Gull, a few Pintail and with a few Meadow Pipits going steadily south. However at 10:50am all hell broke loose...
When Scops Owl which had been spending the last few days in Durham which had presumably went yesterday had been refound. Andrew Tyrell promptly rang me up and off we went on the 3 and three quarters hour journey up north and as always it was an eventful journey with constant stories of old times and how things had changed in birding but this may have caused the odd overshoot in junctions delaying us and using up valuable petrol which we were running out of!
Though, after filling up only 15mins away from the bird and getting some much essential chocolate we arrived at Ryhope as the rain hit, I promptly grabbed my scope and ran before Andrew had even had a chance to open his door! We both got there at the same time though as I managed to lost but we were both afforded with great views of the amazing Scops Owl as it was roosting in the elderberry bush infront of us. Amongst the rain I managed to get some very dodgey digi-scopes which can be seen by following this link too my tweet:
https://mobile.twitter.com/WildlifeBoy1/status/914143392778657798
Just like to thank Andrew for taking me and putting up with me for yet another twitch!
Regards,
Jacob
