25th April 2015

The original plan was to go and look for the pied-billed grebe in Gloucestershire this morning, but I almost had a heart attack when I saw that a HUDSONIAN GODWIT had been present at Meare Heath Scrape!!! We headed up there as quickly as we could, and fortunately, the bird was still showing when we arrived.

Hudsonian Godwit is an American Species, and is Incredibly rare in the Western Palearctic, this individual represents only the 7th record, and only the 3rd record in Britain; the last occurance was in Yorkshire 1988 - 27 years ago!

I was very happy with seeing this, as I haven't had a Mega since the brunnich's guillemot in Dorest, Decemeber 2013.

Terrible Picture of a Brilliant Bird! (dark individual in background)

A quick scan of the scrape also produced Wood Sandpiper, greenshank, redshank and dunlin, and a common tern flew over towards Noah's Lake. Had a good selection of warblers including Wood Warbler, blackcap, garden warbler and whitethroat.