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| Redstart |
Myself and my birders wife were visiting friends in Kidderminster this weekend and I was allowed time off to slope off to the Wyre Forest this morning. Earlier on this year, when myself and Mike-PCC visited it was hard going trying to find anything but today was relatively easy with good sightings of a male and female Redstart and another lone male, quite a few Wood Warblers and masses of Nuthatch, Great Spotted Woodpeckers and Treecreepers all busy feeding their young. I even managed to glimpse the elusive Dipper on Dowles Brook but just could not find any Pied Flycatchers anywhere. After searching Knowles Coppice 3 times and the Orchard twice, time ran away with me and I had to give up (I do have a further chance to look for these later on this month at Nagshead) but it looks like Pied Flycatcher maybe my bogey bird for the year.
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| Wood Warbler |
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| Treecreeper |
On the way home we look a long route back via Hidcote, one of our favourite National Trust gardens. The
Gloster Birder had given me a tip off last week that there were Spotted Flycatchers on site and after a walk round the gardens and nooks and crannies, I found the pair, who proved a bit elusive but did offer an opportunity to get a couple of snapshots.
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| Spotted Flycatcher - What a beauty! |
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