Sunday 8 November 2020

Hume's Warbler at Gunton & North Denes

at 10.30am on Sunday 8th November, I joined both James W (the finder)and Andew E walking behind the Gunton Meadow SWT (same side as Tesco's Petrol station) and walked at the back bordering the Artists estate, I saw James W who explained the bird had flown further west, Andrew was there and had just heard it, then I heard it, the excellent Hume's Warbler, its distinctive lost chick call and saw the bird, a greyer version of YBW with buff supercilia (rather than yellow) and buff on flanks as it moved quickly through the trees moving west the whole time, showed reasonably well for seconds before it over the path and into some large trees bordering the Artists residential estate. Around the North Denes, no sign of the YBW in warren House wood, little along the North denes. The area of the North Denes had been mown with the middle area left. Behind the Links Road car park, both the male and female Stonechats were showing well and I managed a few pics, as were a Common Gull, 1st winter Mediterranean Gull and adult winter Mediterranean Gull (all unringed) amongst the BH Gull flock (3o birds).

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