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Eastern Crowned Warbler in Co. Durham: New to Britain Dougie Holden and Mark Newsome Ren Hathway Eastern Crowned Warbler in Co. Durham: new to Britain Dougie Holden and Mark Newsome Ren Hathway Abstract Britain’s first Eastern Crowned Warbler Phylloscopus coronatus was discovered at Trow Quarry, South Shields, Co. Durham, on 22nd October 2009, where it remained until 24th October. The South Shields bird followed others in Norway, Finland and the Netherlands between 2002 and 2007, plus one on Helgoland, Germany, in 1843. This paper describes its discovery, and discusses the species’ distribution and previous European records. hursday 22nd October 2009 was my Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus was top of my 26th wedding anniversary, and not one list, as I knew that one or two had been seen Tthat I’m likely to forget in a hurry. along the Durham coastline in previous days. Unbeknown to my wife, Lynne, I’d arranged The morning was good, headlined by time off work so that we could spend the day seeing not one but two Short-eared Owls together, but I was unaware of an earlier Asio flammeus coming in off the sea at The commitment of hers that couldn’t be broken. Leas, plus a range of commoner migrants Consequently, I settled for birding my local there and at Trow Quarry: Robins Erithacus patch on the Durham coast; the wind was rubecula and Blackbirds Turdus merula were easterly and I was optimistic. Yellow-browed present in good numbers, Redwings T. iliacus © British Birds 104 • June 2011 • 303–311 303 Holden & Newsome and Fieldfares T. pilaris were flying overhead, this in the only book I had readily to hand, but there was nothing out of the ordinary. Hollom’s (1952) The Popular Handbook of I went home for something to eat at British Birds, which confirmed that some lunchtime, but was sufficiently fired up to Yellow-browed Warblers show ‘a faint light return to the same sites in the afternoon. As I stripe down the centre of the crown’. I posted reached Trow the heavens opened, but I was the photo on Bird Forum, South Tyneside fully waterproofed so decided to stay and thread, and went to bed early, since I needed weather the storm. Derek Bilton joined me to be up for work at 4.45 am the following mid afternoon and I was encouraged that morning. However, around midnight Steve there seemed to be more birds around than rang me to say that county recorder Mark in the morning. One particular leafless Newsome had been checking the internet, Sycamore Acer pseudoplatanus was a hive of noticed my picture (plate 165) and double- activity. We immediately noted one or two clicked it to see the enlarged version. He had Wrens Troglodytes troglodytes, a male and immediately, and correctly, reidentified the female Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla and, at last, bird as an Eastern Crowned Warbler P. coro- two Yellow-browed Warblers. Bingo! The two natus (and probably had severe palpitations phylloscs were mobile, and flew another 30 m while he was about it). This species was a first or so in front of us to the main area of trees for Britain! ‘A what warbler?’ I asked. ‘Eastern and shrubs at the site, commonly known as Crowned,’ replied Steve. ‘It’s a first for the ‘Bowl’. We found the two birds again and Britain, Dougie.’ There was silence at my end I managed a few snapshots as they flitted in of the phone. I was speechless! and out of cover. I rang close friend and Wide awake now, I began searching fellow Durham Bird Club member Steve through my books for more information (I’d Egglestone, who arrived about half an hour never even heard of this bird before), but I later and had a glimpse of the birds in fast- could find no reference to it at all. I logged on fading light. to Bird Forum once more and the first thing I Later that evening, while scanning noticed was the number of users viewing the through my photos (most of which were thread. Normally there are half a dozen or so, pretty poor) on the computer, I noticed that and that’s on a very busy night; but that night one of the phylloscs had a light stripe there were about 180, and my photo had running the length of its crown. I checked been ‘hit’ in excess of 4,000 times. I remained Dougie Holden 165. The photograph that started it all: Dougie Holden’s image of the Eastern Crowned Warbler Phylloscopus coronatus, Trow Quarry, South Shields, Co. Durham, on 22nd October 2009. 304 British Birds 104 • June 2011 • 303–311 Eastern Crowned Warbler in Co. Durham: new to Britain speechless. Unsurprisingly, I didn’t sleep too 150 or more had been there since before first well that night and got up earlier than light, and people were chartering planes from normal, when I couldn’t resist another quick Scilly and elsewhere to get there. I still look on Bird Forum to see how things had couldn’t take it all in – Trow Quarry was the developed during the night. I had also centre of British birding that weekend! received many e-mails from people sending Steve and I agreed to do an interview with their congratulations – including one from a the BBC the following day, Saturday 24th. It reporter from the Daily Express who was after was meant to take about ten minutes, but in an exclusive! reality it lasted the best part of the day, which Trying to keep a lid on things, I went to included hanging around in some really work as normal but was unable to concen- heavy downpours and getting a good soaking trate on my job, as my mobile was ringing for our troubles. But it’s probably the only constantly. One call was from my daughter, time that I will make it onto the national telling me that the local and national press news! The twitch was still very much alive on had been on the phone, and could I ring the the Saturday evening. There was a steady flow BBC immediately, as they wanted to use my of birders coming and going, and it was esti- photo on news bulletins and Autumnwatch mated that 2,000 or more twitched the that day. It was now becoming clear to me Eastern Crowned Warbler successfully. The just how ‘massive’ this little bird was in the bird was not seen after the Saturday. I birding world. couldn’t help reflecting back to that one half- Eventually, I decided to leave work, and decent picture from the Thursday afternoon, got home around 9.00 am. The phone was one that was later to win me the British Birds ringing as I walked through the door, and it Carl Zeiss Award 2010 – without that photo- was the press. One of the reporter’s first graph and, of course, Mark Newsome’s quick questions was ‘How does it feel to be the first wits and superb recognition skills, the bird person to photograph this bird on British would have gone down as ‘just another’ soil?’, to which I answered ‘I feel like I’ve won Yellow-browed and slipped through the net. the birding equivalent of the World Cup!’ All in all, this has been the most fabulous Shortly afterwards, a reporter from the experience and I’ve enjoyed every single Shields Gazette, our local paper, turned up minute of it. I’m sure that the memories will and he insisted that we made our way stay with me for a very long time. straight to Trow to see the crowd building. About 400 birders had assembled, apparently Dougie Holden Description abrupt square end, in line with the rear Size and structure Quite a bulky Phyllo- border of the ear-coverts. It was quite broad scopus, much more powerful and ‘beaky’ than for its full length, unlike the more pencil-line the accompanying Yellow-browed Warbler. supercilium of Arctic Warbler. There was a The size, stance and structure were similar to slight lemon wash to the supercilium in front Arctic Warbler P. borealis. of the eye, ending roughly above the eye, General coloration The clean, white under- although this feature was only really visible parts contrasted with the striking head on photos. The eye-stripe (the part behind pattern, while the grey-toned mantle con- the eye being formed by the upper section of trasted with the brightly fringed wing the ear-coverts) was uniformly dark olive- feathers. The overall impression was of a green and the lower section of the ear-coverts much cleaner and more contrasting bird than was rather plain, unlike the more mottled the regularly breeding British Phylloscopus ear-coverts of Arctic Warbler. The crown was warblers. also dark olive-green, with a thin but clearly Head pattern The supercilium was particu- defined pale grey crown-stripe that extended larly obvious, starting from the bill base and from the mid forehead to the rear of the broadening behind the eye. It flared upward crown, ending abruptly where the nape distinctly behind the eye but came to quite an started. The crown-stripe did not appear to British Birds 104 • June 2011 • 303–311 305 Holden & Newsome reach the bill base and was broadest at the Bonelli’s Warbler P. bonelli. The fringing did rear of the crown. This feature was particu- not extend to the tips of the primaries, these larly noticeable when viewing the bird from being more solidly dark. The median coverts above or when observed front-on and it were more olive-buff, lacked obvious brighter dipped its head.
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