February 15th 2009

Apart from plenty of laughs with Di and Colin then to put it simply we had a bad day in the field failing to find them anything we tried for. Highlight of a poor day were 22 Golden Plover over grandborough valley, Red-necked Grebe, Yellow-legged Gull and 2 Great-northern Diver at Draycote Water and Brandon Marsh just a Shelduck and 3 Snipe. Still theres always something to smile about - Clare from Halcyon, Gambia has named her new sheep after me. Wonder what the boy has on his garden list.

Daisy the sheep

Richard