This blog is a bit late and the pictures are not particularly good but I thought it was worth recording my visit to Hope Gap, back in April, to see the White-crowned Sparrow.
There is not much kudos in adding this to my UK list. I didn't find it, I just tagged onto the back of the twitch and it was probably only staying in the area as people where putting bird feed down to keep it there.
Perhaps I should have gone back another time and tried for a better picture but the more I see of twitches the less I like being there.
Here is one from Canada last year. Unfortunately the picture is not much better but at least I had that bird all to myself. So, self found (not difficult in North America!), no twitch, and a life tick. That one was really well worth celebrating.
I also went to see the putative Iberian Chiffchaff on the Downs Link Footpath just north of Shoreham but I don't think the experts were convinced. I see there is now another being reported from Abbots Wood north of Eastbourne which is making a better case for acceptance.
