Saturday 28 October 2023

Pallid Swift at Corton

A tweet from James B that I picked up 30 minutes later and I was heading up to Corton, parking at St. Bartholomew's Church on the corner. I walked back and joined Andrew E and James B, Andrew said it was flying straight towards me, the excellent Pallid Swift flew towards me with stumpier wings than a normal swift and it showed an isolated dark eye, obvious white throat and mottling on the browney plumage it was a great initial view. Later on it flew above the rail track and just north of there much further away, when it was closer again I failked to get any shots as the light was fading fast. Matthew S and Jeremy G joined us and saw the bird too.

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