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Having had the ibis and greenshank "fill" Mark and I headed back to the car, noting the increase in robin numbers - several were "ticking" along the track back from the Oddie hide. Coffee poured and the BBRC 2008 report in hand we began planning our route to the inevitable Amble chippie... would we stop at East Chevington for the black redstart? No.
A very pleasing shout of "Radde's" from Ian had us (well, me, Mark was a bit more cool about it) walking (trotting?) rather quickly in the direction of the ringing team just up the road from our parked car to have a grill of a fine radde's warbler!
This was a great twist to our morning out, and after the bird was processed and a few photographs were taken, the bird was released none worse for wear.
This was only my second radde's in Northumberland, following the 1991 bird at Tynemouth.
It was interesting to see that further radde's were reported at Holy Island, Spurn and Filey today... along with many yellow-browed warbler... maybe there is a real biggy waiting to be found?
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The Raddes was a first for me.
Right place, only just the right time as I made it with seconds to spare :)
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