Local birding and a twitch

Early morning I dropped my birder's wife off in the north of Warwick to catch a coach down to Twickenham in order to watch the Natwest Schools Rugby Championship.

I then drove over to Oakley Wood to go for a walk in the south of the wood.  Unfortunately, some kind and considerate individual had parked across two parking spots which meant I could not park the car in the area to access that part of the wood.  As I was in the area, I decided to proceed to Lighthorne to have a walk round the ponds.  The only thing showing were about 5 Chiffchaffs and the usual ducks and the farmer who proceeded to tell me in a friendly way that I could not walk on the public footpath!!!!!

Baikal Teal

Feeling pretty fed up I decided to head home to perform a few household chores.  Over lunch, news broke of a Baikal Teal in Cambridgeshire and I decided to cheer myself up by going on a twitch.

An hour and a half later after a bit of a confusing walk (where I really did not know where I was going), I was watching the Teal which spent the whole time asleep.  That did not really matter, as a friend I had met in the Shetlands, turned up and we spent the time catching up.