My Achilles hasn't improved, another lovely sunny morning sitting in the flat watching the Chilean miners being brought to the surface. What a feat of engineering.
If the Pied Wheatear had been reported, I'd planned a Bants Carn trip. The island seems to have emptied of birds overnight, all the reports of the regulars of the past few days were negative .After lunch, we caved in and took a taxi to Porth Loo, where we could bird whilst sitting on a bench. The next couple of hours were most enjoyable. Long strings of Shags fished the other side of Taylor Island, there must have been almost a hundred. Big shoal? Waders gradually revealed themselves amongst the tidelines of thick seaweed. Two Dunlin, a Common Sandpiper, one Whimbrel, two Curlews and a dozen Ringed Plover. A single Mediterranean Gull on distant rocks.
The highlight was the tamarisk corner where a Common Redstart, two Wheatears and a Stonechat occasionally showed, before moving out of the rocks onto the shore.
Common Wheatear
Common Redstart
'Common' seems an utterly inappropriate first name for such lovely birds.
Island taxis home again, another £5 for a 2 mile trip. Come back on duty please Spider, he'd charge us half of that.
22 miners on the surface so far......
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