Fighting with my heart & head, the Heart says drive the 360 mile round trip back to Gwent in Wales or as the head kept telling me over the last couple of weeks don't be stupid it's too far for this old boy to drive, so when Brian says lets go back & get you both a lifer we jumped at the chance.
It takes us 3 hours & we arrive at 7.30 am.
About a mile walk to to the 3rd quarry is done at pace & it's smiles all round when we see the Thrush only a few yards in front of us to give Jimmy & I a nice lifer at last, we dipped a couple of weeks ago so this is sweet.
The bird has been here a few weeks now but over 100 birders showed up while we were here about 5 hours in all.Now for the long drive home but this time we have smiles on our faces 720 miles to bag this bird, when you look at it in black & white it is really mad what we do to see a bird but so much fun is had so there is the reason we do it.
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| Rock Thrush |
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| Brian in happy mood waiting for the Thrush to come close, maybe thinking of the long drive home |
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