On the 9th of September an adult Green Warbler was trapped and ringed at Buckton, Yorkshire. This bird represented the 9th record for Britain and the first twitchable one on the British mainland. We were driving back from our weeks holiday in Cornwall on the 10th and so the 11th would be my first opportunity to twitch it. I made arrangements with Alan Shaw to go on the Saturday morning on first news, working on the basis that it would remain there all day if still on site. Sure enough it was and we set off around 07:45 arriving at […]
