Another visit this afternoon however, with RP, left me momentarily speechless when a call from young Fair Isle with news that the Dipper was back on the River Tean 200 yards up from where we'd just left the lad sent RP into a panic and he set off along the river like a young Billy Beaumont in his prime tearin' through the French forward line!!!!! In the whole time I've known the lad he's never even broke into a trot before but the Dipper was a patch tick for the lad and he wasn't goin' to risk it flyin' off before he got there. Classic behaviour of an ardent patch watcher, suddenly a bird that he's seen many times before turns up on his local patch and if he hasn't seen it there before it might as well be a first for Britain!!!
After the Utch Mega the Great White at Blithers was a bit of an anti-climax as it flew into roost at 1800hrs but if it turns up at Utch in the mornin' I'll be one very happy birder.
That's all folks.
Bill Beaumont? But I thought you said Coe, Ovett or Cram? :o)
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