We had been watching this Pacific diver for a while with a lot of frustration as we had no transport to get us to Wales as Brian's car decided to stop working in protest of all the work it had been put through on our many birding trips over the last few years,
As the bird continued to hang around the frustration got the better of Brian and we now have another bird mobile for Brian to drive us around this wonderful country seeing lovely places, meeting nice people, and doing the thing we love watching birds.
So on Monday 27th, we leave home at 5am to drive the 200 miles to Glamorgan in Wales for our first trip for a while of any distance, it's a nasty old morning rain and mist nearly all the way. On arrival, we pull into the car park at Margam cemetery at 8.30 & it's not long before we are joined by a couple of birders who had been here the day before, so we follow them up the path of the crematorium and over a grassy hill just a short walk and within 10 minutes of leaving the car we are looking over the reservoir and as luck would have it the Pacific Diver is in our corner and only a short distance away to give us cracking views of another lifer for all 3 of us.
After a couple of hours of watching this cracking-looking bird, we just head back home without doing any more birding on a grey sort of day with only the one bird that we needed for a tick but what a cracker. A bit of frustration as Brian had picked up a tick when he spotted a Dipper but failed to get us on it despite the fact he saw it 3 times, never mind we got what we came for.
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