The middle ten day period of April passed without me finding
a Redstart on the hills despite regular walks and plenty of Ouzels and
Wheatears entering the notebook. Then on Sunday morning a distinctive call had
me jogging up the face of Deacon Hill from the fence line to get some glimpses
of an elusive female dodging around the base of the bushes near the trigpoint.
In the bag ! …though was not too worried as I have never had a problem finding
them on autumn passage. Better and more SFYtickworthy was a Tree Pipit that sat
almost totally still for quite a few minutes on a tree top before bounding on
northwards. Added to a blue-headed moustached reedbed dweller I had found on Saturday,
that completed three decent passerines for the weekend, making up for the complete
lack of terns or waders that I had been hoping to find at daybreak; maybe next
weekend…
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