Penduline Tit at Lower Moors

4th November 2022

This morning Graham Gordon discovered a Dusky Warbler at Little Porth followed by this Penduline Tit at Lower Moors over an hour later

An early morning call from Graham Gordon, 07.20, to tell me that he had a Dusky Warbler in my bosses garden at Little Porth. After finding one myself yesterday at Newford Duckpond, I thought I would go and have a look at it later. Less than an hour later, there was no sign of the warbler and with Graham, we were birding the Standing Stones field. As Graham was goin onto cover Lower Moors and the weather was turning in a few hours, I thought I would part and get to Porth Hellick. Shortly after seeing a Sibeian Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler at the entrance of Porth Hellick, Graham called again to let me know that he had just found himself a British tick! ‘Penduline Tit!‘ It was in front of the ISBH at Lower Moors and even though the only British Penduline that I’ve ever seen was nearly 25 years ago, when James Siddle turned up a single bird also at Lower Moors in November, I continued to bird, as I knew that there were other scarities to be unearthed. Lee Almey, had a Pallas’s Warbler a few days ago on St Agnes and it was now also in company with a Dusky Warbler in the same hedge that Lee alerted us on the WharsApp group. Ten minutes later, After seeing the long staying Wilson’s Snipe, I was nearing the beach, when I could hear a Dusky Warbler calling just south of the Seaward Hide. It continued to call when I was almost on top of it and only catching glimpses low down on the edge of the reeds. I could still hear it as it made it’s way towards the ringing station. Listening to 2 Yellow-browed Warbler on the loop trail, the wind had increased but it was shortly afterwards, high up in the Sallows at the entrance of Higher Moors, that I got onto a Subalpine Warbler sp. I lost it when the Sallows were blown all over the shop only to pick it up again, then loose it in the same way from another gust coming through. Some twenty minutes while trying to relocate the Subalp, a visiting birder got onto the Melodious Warbler, that’s been hanging out in the same clump of Sallows for the last few days. I only saw it breifly as it moved through.

This Willow Warbler was at Higher Moors

Not many Siberian Chiffchaff around at the moment with this individual only my third of the autunm so far was also at Higher Moors

If only the Wilson’s Snipe showed like this Snipe at Porth Hellick

The Rains finally arrived and mid-afternoon, I was watching the late Spotted Flycatcher at Rose Hill late in the afternoon, I was with other birders in the ISBG hide at Lower Moors observing Graham’s Penduline Tit for a good tewenty minutes before it disappeared into the reeds towards the Dump.

This late Spotted Flycatcher has been present art Rose Hill for the last few days.

The only other Penduline Tit that I’ve seen, away from Kuwait and Spain, was a single individual also at Lower Moors in November ’97 that James Siddle turned up.

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