This worked well last year when I posted a list of spring birds I’d like to see in Leicestershire, and several of them duly turned up, so let’s try it again for the autumn. In view of the fall of a few blockers recently, the emphasis is very much on birds that other people have seen and I haven’t!
Long-tailed Skua – Richard Fray and I missed the first of the two modern county records (Rutland Water north arm, September 1997) by a whisker, as we sat in the car and had a leisurely lunch before strolling down to see if the assembled birders there were actually watching anything. They weren’t – it had flown through a few minutes earlier.
Roseate Tern – only one semi-twitchable record, in August 2004, which I missed because it was Mrs Llama’s birthday. Not blaming her for that, just thinking that I should have accumulated some cosmic Brownie points by not buggering off to see it!
Richard’s Pipit – I was on Shetland when the only twitchable county record occurred, on Bardon Hill in October 2006. I’m not going to Shetland this year...
Lapland Bunting – everyone’s seen one of these apart from me, again, because I’m usually not here when they turn up.
And a few other miscellaneous things that are ’due’ in Leics & Rutland that would be county ticks for most people:
And a few other miscellaneous things that are ’due’ in Leics & Rutland that would be county ticks for most people:
Any pratincole
Least Sand and/or SemiP
Bonaparte’s Gull
A twitchable Shore Lark
A rare Phyllosc
And maybe we should now add Two-barred Crossbill to that list?
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