Green with envy (If driving 800 miles for 30 seconds viewing of a rare bird is not enough to get you committed I don't know what is!)
Surely there must be a cure for this madness! For an explanation read on dear intrepid reader read on! Mid-afternoon last Thursday a report surfaced of an exceeding rare Green Warbler being trapped and ringed at Bempton Cliffs RSPB reserve. The BBRC database reports just 6 UK sightings of this green beauty. Its rarity is compounded even further by 5 of these records being on remote offshore islands while the remaining one was an almost untwitchable one day wonder in Cornwall. Hence the possibility of a twitchable bird on the UK mainland put the UK birding fraternity into somewhat of a frenzy! The Green Warbler is the more eastern relative of the imaginatively named Greenish Warbler, itself a very scare migrant visitor to these shores. It spends the warmer months breeding in a rather restricted range in Northern Turkey, Caucasus and Northern Iran before returning to Southern India and Sri Lanka to over winter. Later on Thursday reports started to emerge of nea...