Thursday, February 15, 2007

Treecreeper Magic

A few days ago a Eurasian Treecreeper was discovered at a camping sight called: Franse kamp.
Missing the bird on 10 minutes I rediscovered the bird the next day, very nice bird indeed with the white belly and huge white eye-streak!
Unfortunately it wasn't the best weather at the time.

Seeing the nice weather today I almost skipped all my lessons and went birding all day long, I didn't do it though.
Seeing the sun drop fast I went just after school to the Franse kamp and started searching for the treecreeper.
After an hour or so I found 3 fellow birders that told me that they'd seen the bird! But it was gone now.
After 2 of them left and 1 started searching elsewere I decedid to scan the treetops in the middle part of the Franse kamp.
I found 1 female Green woodpecker enjoying the last sun-rays and a Black woodpecker flew by.
A calling Wood lark flew high over, allso I heard 5 Hawfinches.
After hearing a familiar sound at the other end of the field I walked down to that part and started to search for treecreepers again.
The call seemed to come from a tree close by and after a few Short-toed Treecreepers flew by I walked around the tree seeing a whitish treecreeper flying to another tree, when it landed it foraged for a few seconds and started flying to an other tree.
I noticed that this treecreeper was whiter than the others and it sure could be the Eurasian!
Finally the little rascal had settled down on a birch tree and I got a better look at the bird, it immediately was clear to me that this was the Eurasian treecreeper and I finally saw it calling to! That was the absolute proof for me that this was an Eurasian.
I got a few great views on the bird but it ultimately flew away in eastern direction.
When cycling back I noticed a Raven calling somewhere in the forrest.

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