Pine Grosbeak OMFL!! Part 2...

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Arriving at Collafirth just before 9.00am and cutting a long story short we finally connected with the bird briefly in Greenbae plantation around 10.30am when Steve James picked it up calling in the pines. However before the other birders on-site included Colin Green could connect, the Grozzer flew off towards the Forsta farm when being flushed by a  Peregrine. 
After the initial panic of the Grozzer flying off it was picked up again in the Forsta plantation 30 minutes later and as you can see below the bird showed down to 10 feet away!!  
 
More to follow soon...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Carl Baggott said…
Smart looking bird well done with connecting with it.
3 March 2013 at 13:32
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