I was away for a long weekend with my grandson when the Black Stork arrived at Frampton and couldn't believe it was still present on Tuesday when I returned from the family break with zero birding, you heard that right zero birding!
As I've mentioned in previous posts my brother Jim is chasing down his 400th life tick and needed Black Stork for 399 so despite being tired from entertaining my grandson all weekend and the drive home Monday evening I made the call at 10amTuesday having seen the first reports of the bird showing well from the car park and within half an hour we were in the car and on our way. We arrived at 1pm to negative news from the visitor centre but followed the path south to the general area of the last report. As we approached the final bend we picked up the Stork in flight circling quite high and to the south but at least we'd seen it and got the much wanted life tick for the Jims.
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| Black Stork at Frampton |
We walked to the sea wall and located the Stork again in a distant field but as we started to walk closer and again it took flight and this time landed right in the middle of the field by the reservoir at Frampton giving us great scope views before it once again took flight and landed out of view.
The Pacific Golden Plover didn't show whilst we sat on the bank waiting for an hour but did appear shortly after we'd left and Jim picked up another year tick with a Little Stint.
We counted seventeen Spoonbill and had a modest total wader count of just fifteen species although we didn't make it all the way around due to arriving late and spending lot's of time on the Stork and PGP.
A decent day out which moved my year list to a miserable Covid restricted 217
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| Sun flowers at Frampton |
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