A cold start to the day not helped by a very strong south to south west wind increasing in speed as the predicted weather front comes ever closer. Common Scoter male near the valve tower, Little Gull 2 first winters in toft and Shag 2 all still present while new arrivals were a Black Redstart immature on toft bank near the sewage farm, the 15 House Martins feeding in rainbow and a Rock Pipit found by Kay and Max on farborogh bank. Best sighting of the day goes to the Mervielle du Jour on the cafe wall (a first for draycote)and also caused draycote's first moth twitch with a few locals coming down to see it. Unfortunately it wasn't close enough for me to get a decent photo with my box camera but both John and Bob have bigger equipment than me and soon got some shots off.
Merveille du jour by John Judge
Rest of the visit was hoping for some bionic flyover to warm me up but all I got for my troubles was a Snipe and failed to relocate the Black Redstart. It may not have gone far - just looking for somewhere more sheltered with less disturbance.
WEATHER WARNING. Forcast is for heavy rain tonight and tomorrow morning so could lead to localised flooding.
Richard
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