Bearded Tit OMFL!!

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As the statement says above Bearded Tit on my fooking list! So after my third attempt of trying to see the bleeding things I finally connected yesterday morning, as the group of three males and two females flew across the moor pool reed bed at Cossington Meadows LRWT.
Looking at the Soar Valley Year list, the beardies now puts me on 145 species. I added Waxwing to the list the previous Sunday, when I had four birds calling over the reed bed at Watermead CP North.
So with a few weeks left until the end of the year, I might just added a couple of species to the year list, here's hoping?

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John Hague said…
Bearded Tit put me on 146...
21 November 2010 at 20:36
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