RARE WARBLER FROM EASTERN EUROPE CONTINUES TO ATTRACT ADMIRERS

It's not how it looks, it's how it sings - the rare warbler in concert today

                                                        

A RARE Blyth's reed warbler - a wind-blown vagrant from Eastern Europe - is continuing to prove a magnet  for birders. The bird is not notable for its plumage coloration but for its remarkable song which is largely blended, by mimicry, from those of  other species including, in this case, swallow, blackcap, quail and bee-eater. None days after first being detected and identified by local expert Graham Catlety, it was still present this morning adjacent to the Target pit at Far Ings Nature Reserve, near Barton-on-Humber.    

What a bird! These observers had come from Hull and Tadcaster to catch up with the wanderer