Sunday, 3 August 2025

20250803 Zitting Cisticola & Black Stork, Suffolk Coast

 

20250803 Zitting Cisticola
Male in frequent song flights over reedbed, Walberswick, just out of shot over mill...
Diverted for British Isles tick on way to shoot a Black Stork...
Zitter's first seen in Mallorca 1989 as Fan-tailed Warbler and assumed it would be bagged living on the South coast.
Odd the species is still classed as a Mega Scarcity in Britain?
Following a wide-ranging circular song-flights the bird dived straight into cover...
Proved rather difficult to switch from bins to camera which then locked onto Dragonflies &c.
'ziit' repeated in flight. Or 'tzet' better.