A twitchable Red-rumped Swallow - At last!

Red-rumped Swallow has a bit of 'history' within Cleveland.  There are eight accepted records but in total only about ten people have seen them.
The 'history' revolves around whether or not they're all believed, whether others that were not submitted or rejected should have been and why the hell have we not had one that hung around for long enough for the masses to catch up with.
Well at least the latter point was put right today, with Chris Sharp coming up with the goods yet again (he's had a decent couple of years :-)).
This beauty was at Bowesfield and lingered for all the 'listers' to catch up with.......

Cheers Chris!!

Get in there!!

Its just over two years since I began this blog, with the difficult choice to be made about a Thayer's Gull in Ireland. Well, good things come to those who wait....... apparently.

News this week of a Thayer's in Lincolnshire had us all comparing the photographs with the books and, sure enough, it looked a goodun!

Off to the middle of nowhere, somewhere near Scunthorpe on Thursday, to connect with this extremely distinctive fella. The BBRC / BOU will have the final say (eventually) no doubt but it looks good enough for me.. nice addition to the list.

Having finally got my first tick of 2012...... Bring on Egypt and Turkey!