The autumn migration period is pretty much over for another year, but Thursday afternoon at work brightened up considerably with the news of a male Penduline Tit at Newport Wetlands, and 5 of us (including 3 members of Wales Management Team mind you) bundled into a car to see it. Unfortunately then weather wasn't exactly onside and fiftenn minutes before we arrived it emptied down and the bird went to ground in the rush beds immediately outside the center, of all places! I kept an eye on the forums yesterday and eagerly again this morning before making a quick exit for round two.
When I arrived it was where it had been two days previously and he was busy feeding on seeds. He had practically gone up inside a rush, the seeds floating away in the breeze. Another one of the rarest birds I've seen to date in the latter half of 2013!
