Early morning at Conwy RSPB reserve and the fine adult Spoonbill, which arrived yesterday afternoon, was still present. This great bird complete with funky crest, yellow under-bill and bill tip was stood amongst a group of local Herring Gulls. It certainly looked very out of place! Occasionally it fed in the shallow waters sweeping its open bill from side to side then grabbing prey, persumably small fish? These were quickly swallowed and sweeping resumed. It was nice to see this rare visitor from Europe stood next to Little Egrets, now so much apart of our local birding scene. Perhaps in years to come Spoonbills will be a common sight here? They are certainly turning up more frequently. While watching the Spoonbill Alan's mobile rang. It was local birder Marc Hughes, he had just found an Melodious Warbler on the Great Orme! A very scarce bird in North Wales, and a first record for the county of Conwy! Needless to say it was goodbye Spoonbill. A mad dash up onto the huge limestone headland of the Great Orme, luckily not much traffic at 8am on a Sunday morning. Then a run across the limestone pavement to join Marc and a few other local birders looking into a filed with some hawthorn bushes. A tense few minutes past without a sign. Then movement in the gorse below the hawthorns. Out popped the Melodious Warbler showed off for a few seconds then dropped out of sight. This became the pattern, show well, then drop. Everyone got great views of this large green and yellow warbler with its large pink bill. What a great morning and all within a few miles of home!