A 2am phone call from Brian this morning saying he was going for the Catbird wasn't such a shock, more surprising was that I was ready and meeting him within twenty minutes!
After putting the location into the satnav it's just the 320 miles between us and the bird! Thick Fog and M3 closures hindered our progress. But we still Arrived at Land's End by 8am and managed to find the field being used as a car park without any problems. The car park was already full and the field was covered in mist. However, the sun was rising, and the mist soon cleared.
We joined the birders at the bottom of the field and realised that there were just as many birders viewing the area from the opposite side of the stone wall. we had received mixed news. The bird had been seen this morning but had disappeared since. An hour had passed when we got our first sighting of the bird. It was distant, but it was sitting up in scrub allowing adequate scope views.
Relieved we had seen the bird, now we waited and hoped for a better view. An hour later we got just that. It flew to the line of brambles on our side of the wall, and soon headed for the small Willow. The bird was filling the scope, but it moved even closer and soon it was perched in scrub above the wall within 10 feet of us!
We left and made a quick stop at Broadsands hoping to add Cirl bunting to the year list. These proved difficult to find, but eventually, we had views of two birds in the hedgerows bordering the two fields.
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