Brian & I attend a family funeral this afternoon & before he has to leave to head back to work we make plans to go looking for Nightjar tonight at the Brecks.
Jimmy gets the call to meet up at 7.30pm & we arrive at 9 pm & pull into a small clearing in the woods.
Other people arrive over the next hour & that gives us the chance for a talk while waiting for darkness & the birds to start churring.
We hear Tawny Owls & then Woodcock start to fly over our heads, in all we see 10 plus over the next two hours. At about 10.20 we hear the first Nightjar & over the next hour we hear a few more,a bird flies up to give a quick view but we hope for better.
We start to head back towards the car & stop to talk to a lone birder who was here to record Woodcocks.
Brian had gone on ahead of us & gets to see a Nightjar fly over his head, he points to us but we miss out on this one, but as we stand here Jimmy turns round to get us onto a nice one just above our heads & as it flies the light hits it just right for a really great view.
We do this trip every year now & once again it proves to be a good one with 2 more year ticks.
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