Oh Not Again...

Well, dear reader[s], I have again managed to break myself and so my birding is curtailed until I heal. Drat and other comments.

I am not incapacitated, but won't be toting anything heavier than bins for a while [and that includes a rucksack, keeping me off t'Moor, too.. ::sniff::]. 

I've not been doing nothing, having been ambling slowly about the Patch - indeed a bit too much today as I have aggravated it {a BlackRed was involved.. Ahem} - and so I have something to report.

My first actual Collared Dove from Here this week was perhaps overdue, but they're never common on Patch and this side of The Hill? Exactly. On the 25th, my SkyGarden was filled with tits as no less than 15 arrived at once! And 10 of them were Blue [I've had lots of LTTs in on cold winters before].

The benefit of my misadventure today was a f-type Black Redstart - briefly - on the back of Sandy Cove at the Nose [with Mike P]. Also on site; 5 of today's 15+ Blackcap, and 2 GCG offshore [well, inshore, really]. The 50+ Common Scoter were off Meadfoot, in the lee of Thatcher Rock, with 3 Rockits together on the Sea Road. No divers seen and no sign of the Velvets in the still-impressive swell and pesky glare [but note; no scope!]

There were at least 7 GNDs in the Outer Harbour - seen together by the cill! - with 2 more on the sea off Livermead, accompanied by 3+ GCG and a throated diver sp. which eluded speciation. A Kingfisher was fishing the calm water under the overhung section of the oil pier [has the yacht crane on it], but there were only Herring Gulls sat on the pontoon. Again. 

Inland, Blackcaps came in bursts, most notably just up from the Museum [I was looking for another BlackRed which has been seen around there], as did tit bands, but I got nothing rare or even scarce, with Patch Scarcity coming in the form of 2 Stock Dove flying over trying to pretend they were Feral Pigs and not worth looking at!

I have no idea when I'll be back to form again, I'm just hoping it'll be sooner than later...

[What can you do?] 

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