Aldcliffe Stints
Jon Carter found yesterday’s two Temminck’s stints at Aldcliffe on the Wildfowlers’ ponds this morning, so I went down to the gate there at around 0845, to draw the usual blank at this site (there’s just so much of it that you can’t see!). After a few minutes, I decided to go down to Freeman’s pools, where I found Ray Hobbs, who’d also drawn a blank. So I looked there for a while, and then realised there quite a nice linking footpath from Freeman’s pools along the seawall back to the car park, which would allow me to get another view of the WF pools. Not thinking I’d see anything, I stopped at several points to scan the ponds, and lo and behold, just as I was giving up to go home, there they were, yet another lifer after all the excitement of Dorset! They showed for a few minutes, before disappearing up a channel and into an area of reeds. Thinking I might find them again on the other side, I walked back to the car park, then back up to the metal gate, where I found a couple of birders (one of whom turned out to be Neville from Weymouth, who found the Little Bittern at Lodmoor, up here for a holiday!)
