Had you visited East India Dock Basin on September 26th 2006 you would have seen twenty or so birders gazing intently in to the northern scrub trying to get a glimpse of a Barred Warbler, only the 8th London record. Roll on exactly five years and the same sight greets you, a few less people maybe but a simply astonishing record. The bird was found by John Archer during his lunch break and the news was related to me by a slightly incredulous John who had just finished a weekend which saw him find a juvenile Semipalmated Sandpiper in Kent and two Roseate Terns at his local patch, Crossness, clearly more ornithological stardust than one man deserves but I'm not complaining. I managed to see the bird briefly at around six o'clock before the heavens opened and sent me off home slightly damp but happy.
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