Saturday, 6 September 2025

A Black Redstart at NLMFC Baldock

2nd September 2025

My first visit to the North London Model Flying Club (NLMFC) Warren Lane, Baldock to see if I could find the sometimes elusive Black Redstart that has taken up residence there. I was warned it was off a single track road with no parking, so parked my car on Wallington Road and walked there along the footpaths. This took me through some wonderful field-side habitat, but no sign of any Wheatears, Stonechats or Whinchats, not even a Sky Lark.

It was only as I was approaching the flying club runway that I spotted my first photo opportunity, a Buzzard sitting in a field.






Then on to the buildings by the model aircraft club. I was told the Black Redstart was elusive so I was standing there peering at the roofs and gutters where I had expected it to appear. But then out of the corner of my eye I spotted something grey in a dark green Elder just 10 yards away. Bingo!!




It then flew off and was lost from view. Black Redstarts are known to associate with industrial units, even power stations, and I eventuaally refound it perched on one of the lorries of the scaffoldung company there. 








Not the best of back-drops, but it is a Black Redstart after all.












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