My brother and I went on a bit of a road trip down to the Forest of Dean today enduring the first rain for some time and also a lack of interesting birds! The RSPB reserve at Nag's Head promised a selection of decent stuff but sadly failed to deliver much at all. We put in plenty of effort and walked for several miles around the reserve but still struggled to find many of the specialities though thankfully there were a couple of exceptions!
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| Redstart |
First bird of note and certainly one of the highlights of the day was a male Redstart which showed well from one of the hides. It was so good that we popped back in for a return visit after a fruitless slog around the Long Trail in a failed attempt to see Wood Warbler. My brother David managed to see a Spotted Flycatcher in the same area but I couldn't get on it before it flew while we both saw a female Redstart which showed briefly. Tables were turned in the flycatcher stakes with a Pied which was singing in oaks near the hide. I managed three brief views of what was a fairly mobile bird but my brother failed to see it. Very little else of note was found, there were four Fallow Deer feeding quietly in one part of the reserve and a rather showy Garden Warbler which treated us to some good views before it disappeared back into cover. Not our most productive sortie perhaps but the image of that Redstart will stay with me for a while.
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| Garden Warbler |
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