Pied-Billed Grebe - Blast From The Past Finds
Pied-Billed Grebe is yet another old school rarity that people dream of finding. When I began birding in the late 90s there had been a long staying individual in Cork harbor for several years, around what had been a grebe hotspot of Rostellan. It was if no use to me, but it was a bird that I wanted for ages after hearing many stories of it. My first in Ireland was a bird I twitched at Tacumshin, Wexford, which was the first available for some ten years after the disappearance of the Cork bird. But it was to be Cork harbor which would produce one self found bird for me. 11th of December 2010 Over the course of the winter of 2010, Cork harbor was hopping with good birds. A Surf Scoter was present in the channel off Marloag and it was because of this bird that I picked up a Pacific Diver in the same area a week before. Searching the harbour the preceding weekend to the 11th was proving astoundingly productive. Starting at Aghada, produced both self found Slavonian Grebes ...