So up early after my 2-10 shift on Friday morning saw me heading over to Barton.
On arrival the bird was soon seen and i watched it through the scope as it gave some nice views as it hawked insects over the pit.
It seems ages since i have seen a juvenile and my last was at Covenham Reservoir on the 3rd of October 2004,so re-aquainting myself with a bird of this age is always constructive.
I was then joined by GPC and we watched the bird as it gradually came closer and eventually i managed to get some half decent shots of it,what a super little bird.
Another visit on the morning of the 30th,saw more nice views of the bird eventually,but it spent long periods perched up and my photos were much more distant this time apart from when myself,along with Nige and Steve walked around to the Westfield Lakes end of the pit and it luckily came into land not too far away to join it's adopted Lapwing flock.
This is the third White-winged black i have seen at Barton after a joint find along with GPC of a moulting adult at Pursuit Pit/Ness lake on the 16th July 1994 and a stunning spring adult on the Sailing Pit/Pit 25 which Neil Drinkall found on 23rd of May 2006.
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