It is because of her quality & interesting content. Born in 1994, she has the real name “Autumn Nelson” and she is one of the popular models on social media.Ĭolors of Autumn 94 has attained a reasonable presence on Instagram and TikTok. Am I going to add them to my British list or my World list – no, am I glad I went to see them – yes, but only because I was in the area anyway.Colors of Autumn 94 is a rising American model, social media celebrity, and entrepreneur.

If we were to give Chimney Swift, an undoubted vagrant, a score of 10 and Harris’s Hawk, a common falconer’s bird and a frequent escape, a score of 1, then I would allocate the Trumpeters a score of 4. There is almost always a case for and against a particular American vagrant being wild. The nearest population on the Great Lakes only makes short distance movements to ice free areas in winter and 3) they have arrived on the east coast when you would expect vagrants from America to arrive on the west coast or in Ireland, 4)the comparison with the Sandhill Crane is not really valid as that bird was a first year and had already made landfall in Scotland before moving south in stages, a pattern shared by the previous Sandhills in Britain. Arguments against are 1) they are adults, the vast majority of vagrants are first years 2) although the species is partially migratory, no really long distance movements have been noted and the swan is not found on the American east coast.

Arguments for them being wild are 1) they are unringed 2) the species is increasing rapidly in numbers in the USA due to re-introduction schemes 3) the species is partially migratory 4) there have been severe storms on the east coast of the States which may have induced dispersal out to sea 5) when they first arrived some staining, possibly iron oxide, was seen on the head, something that has been noted on Whooper Swans from Iceland and 6) another large bird from USA/Canada has occurred in the very same area – a Sandhill Crane in 2011. There has been some discussion at to whether these birds are wild or escapes from captivity. My reason for going to Boyton was to see the two Trumpeter Swans that have been present for the last couple of weeks, one of just five waterfowl species in the world that I have yet to see. On route we stopped at two sites in Suffolk, the RSPB reserve at Boyton and the famous archaeological site of Sutton Hoo. On the 27th we left Essex and headed north to my brother’s place in Duffield, near Derby. Whenever I see that name I am reminded of the excellent, if saucy song ‘Billericay Dickie’ by Ian Dury ‘Oh golly, oh gosh come and lie on the couch with a nice bit of posh from Burnham-on-Crouch’ I’m so glad I did.Īcross the river from the reserve is the town of Burham-on-Crouch. Mongolia represented my best chance of seeing this species so in 2018 I finally decided to go. Due to work commitments I couldn’t go until the Friday night of the 9th day. The only accepted British record was of one that spent nine days at the Naze in Essex in autumn 1994. By 2018 there was just one left, Red-throated Thrush. I was never going to see all of the 618 bird on the British List in the UK itself but I’d have a go at seeing all (but the two extinct ones of course) somewhere in the world. What finally made my mind up to go was the fact that I had been targeting birds that had occurred in the UK. The wide open plains and deserts, high mountains and forests have always appealed but as I have travelled more and more in Asia the number of new birds that I would get on a trip to Mongolia declined to a mere seven (and I only got to see five of those). The most obvious example of this Mongolia, a country I have been wanting to visit for decades but have never got round to. As I said in my last post my blog has been resurrected and as well as catching up with my more recent travels I intend to go back and post more about trips that I didn’t cover previously.

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