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<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>After a few hours we left for home with a very short stop at Kelham Bridge where we failed to give Willow Tit a year tick but who’s complaining.<\/p>\n
year list now 242<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
A day off work gave me the opportunity to travel up the M1 where a party of Bee-eaters have set up home and look like trying to produce some little Bee-eaters with a little luck.<\/p>\n
The RSPB has set up safe viewing with the help of a local farmer and the quarry owners. We paid the \u00a35 car park fee and walked across the road where we managed scope views of the birds siting in a distant Ash tree. We then walked the footpath to get closer views along with the hundred or so other birders on site.<\/p>\n
We enjoyed great views of six of the seven birds as they flew out from the Ash to collect a constant supply of bees and dragon flies and they seemed to achieve 100% hit rate.<\/p>\n After a few hours we left for home with a very short stop at Kelham Bridge where we failed to give Willow Tit a year tick but who’s complaining.<\/p>\n year list now 242<\/p>\n <\/p>\n