After the excitement of the Rose-coloured Starling at St. Helens, I suppose that Burton was going to be a bit of a let down but we just had an hour so we looked around on the main scrape and down at the barn then we went to the first blind where a Bearded Tit had been seen recently but we didn’t have much luck on that account. That really would have made a special birding day.
October 28, 2018 archive
Oct 28 2018
Rose-Coloured Starling Life Tick at St. Helens : 28th October 2018
We had a spare day available to us and thought we would go up to the Wirrall for a slightly high tide to see if we could get any raptors. High tide wasn’t until around 1pm however, so we thought we would take a punt at looking for a juvenile Rose-coloured Starling (or Rosy Starling) in St Helens, about half an hour away, first. The bird was just a juvenile but we had searched long and hard for one in the Highland a while back (29th July 2017 at Embo) and this definitely seemed like an easier prospect. But we still had to locate the bird – seemilngly lurking in some ivy and brambles in a garden at the back of Fryday’s Chip Shop near Baxter’s Lane in St Helens.