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Wednesday 13 October 2010

Soar


Yellow-browed Warbler - not as obliging as the last weeks - the Pallas's was impossible!



Pallas's Warbler just W of E soar Farm in long wooded hedgerow - a very vocal bird watched for 10-15mins also Yellow-browed Warbler in same spot. I found perhaps the same Y-b Warbler earlier in a line of willows going NW along a hedge from the large mixed copse well up Starehole Valley toward the converted barn - probably about 300m (across open fields) to other spot.

Also around area:
Lapland Bunting still in ploughed field just NE of East Soar carpark, with nearly 100 Skylarks many Meadow Pipits, Pied Wagtails and Linnets, 6 Wheatear and Merlin.
4 Blackcap, 9 Goldcrests, 11 Chiffchaff, 6 Redwing, 8 Song Thrush, 1 Reed Bunting, 24 Siskin, 8 Stonechat, 4 Swallows, 16 Chaffinches, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker.

in Starehole Valley 6 Ring Ouzels, 1 Mistle Thrush, 6 Bullfinch, 23 Robins.