Two tick day: Oriental Turtle Dove and Slaty-backed Gull OMFL!!!
Distant shot of the Slaty-backed Gull at Rainham RSPB Oriental Turtle Dove twitch thanks Beast!! Pieman at the Slaty Gull twitch!! So on Thursday and news from the previous day of the Slaty-backed Gull was refound again at Rainham Marshes RSPB, London and the long staying Oriental Turtle Dove at Chipping Norton,Oxfordshire a two tick day was on the cards. So meeting up with Neil Hagley and the famous "Pieman" Mark Reeder we were on the road by 8.00am and got to Chipping Norton just before 9.30am. Parking in the small town, we walked down the hill on to "The Leys" and met up with the Beast (Colin Towe) and Trev Woodcroft who had been on site since 8.00am. The dove had been seen briefly an hour earlier but since then it had disappeared in to the local gardens. Then Neil said those magic words "There it is in the nearby ash tree!" Viewing the dove from the road, the dove sat in the tree for the next 15minutes until it was flushed a wood pigeon. So the f...