The mega alert went off on saturday afternoon saying that a Green warbler had been found on Unst at Settlers hill,Baltasound in Shetland.The bird had originally come out as as Greenish warbler and then a prob Green Warbler.The bird was then trapped and ringed and also DNA samples were taken for analysis. Allan conlin was up there at his house and had seen the bird which had been found by Mike pennington and was keeping me up to date with the bird.There were no charters on sunday as they were full, after fred fearn had tryed for us all day saturday so we had to pray and wait for it to still be there on monday morning.The bird showed allday sunday so fingers crossed for the morning.
I met up with Fred Fearn,Pete Antrobus and Simon Slade at Lymm services on the M6 and we headed towards York for are chartered flight.Allan had kindly got up for us really early and was searching for the bird has we drove.
On arrival we waited for news on the bird.Two yellow wagtails,Corn buntings and Skylarks kept us entertained whist we waited.
CORN BUNTING
YELLOW WAGTAIL
SKYLARK
Allan phoned me just after 9.00am to say that the bird couldn't be relocated and that there were only two birders looking.We hung around till 11.00am but there was no news we were all gutted as this was only the second record for Britain the last one being on the Scilly Isles on St Marys from the 26th September till the 4th October.
THE PLANE THAT NEVER TOOK OFF
Anyway my motto is THEY'LL BE ANOTHER!Allan has kindly let me use his photos of the bird for my blog just to grip me off even more!
GREEN WARBLER 2nd FOR BRITAIN
