More Wryneck

Still there, day six and counting. A few new faces on the patch this morning, but the same birds there as last week basically, we need a change in the weather. I popped out with number one son this morning as he wanted to see it - actually he thought it was a tick, but when we came home we realised he'd seen the 2010 bird, as had his sisters in fact. This spurred us to then watch "Twitchers, a very British Obsession", so he could see how well I treat him, and also what all the people on the patch were doing. Compared to Baggers and Lee, I now appear a lot more normal. Lee of course twitched both previous Wrynecks, scoring both times, our patch's huge claim to fame. I remember him telling me he had thought Wanstead Flats referred to a block of flats. Just with a lot of good birds in it perhaps? Oh, another Wryneck in stairwell B, and a couple of Redstarts near the Biffabins....

The Wryneck showed pretty well first thing, and then scooted out of the enclosure into the broom fields where we kept getting glimpses of it dashing, all tail, between various clumps, but never saw it properly. All the Whinchats are still around, and Tony found a Redstart in the SSSI, but nothing else doing, and all the Warblers disappeared fairly rapidly. This was the cue to go home for sustenance, and more jobs. In a way it's pretty handy when weekends are quiet, it means I can get stuff done, stuff that I have been putting off for ages. So I've finally cleaned out the guttering on the greenhouse, and finally emptied the water butts and given them a good scrubbing too. My life is just too exciting....

Apart from that, the rest of the day has been devoted to Photoshop.....



In my dreams......