The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Just been told that a Yellow Throated warbler has been spotted just outside Newport Gwent. Hope the following link is useful for anyone fancying a dash down there. http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/9 ... in/?ref=mr

As it is just outside my home village it is a 3 and a half hour drive.

Andrew

Hi Andrew

I'm afraid that the journalists at the South Wales Argus (sounds like an endemic species of butterfly!) have got it totally wrong. The bird is in fact a Common Yellowthroat (about the tenth record for Britain) and not a Yellow-throated Warbler (which has never turned up in Britain).

An absolute cracker of a bird and well worth going to see if it sticks about.

Cheers

Grahame

Hi

i was about to say that the report in the South Wales Argus was wrong, but thinking of going down if it is there early next week.

Andrew

Chris Grimshaw and I made the trip down to try and see the Yellowthroat, so after 190 miles in the car, me reminiscing about my old haunts, walking 1.5 miles uphill, and later finding we only had to walk half a mile, we missed the bird by the standard, "well it shoed 10 minutes ago!!!!" For my first long distance twitch, to my home area, failure.

We then headed off to Newport Wetlands, in the hope of widely reported Bittern, for heavy rain to force everything into cover.

Argh!!!!

Andrew

Newport Wetlands was about as productive as the Gobi Desert but a little bit wetter. Virtually drowned
Still the cake baked by Andrews Mother was worth the trip alone