Buff-bellied Pipit and Siberian Chiffchaff, Burton Marsh 28th December 2013
Siberian Chiffchaff, Burton Marsh, Dec 2013
The reported presence of a Buff-bellied Pipit and a Siberian Chiffchaff at Burton Marsh was too much to resist and with just a few days of 2013 left I was determined to add another tick to my 2013 year list – indeed a it would be a life tick ! Being a Saturday we were pretty sure that we would be in the company of a few other birders but I wasn’t really expecting the eighty to one hundred birders that must have been there whilst we were.
We took the same route as we would have done if we were going to Inner Marsh Farm but we kept on the road as it bears right along the edge of the marsh (Station Road). We found a parking spot there and set up the scope. Continue reading