Christine's walking & birds blog

Where a wide green track runs down to the left, I heard "hoo-eet"; so I sat down and waited. Eventually two redstarts showed - one a gorgeous male, the other probably a female. They were flycatching from the tops of hawthorns and flying down to feed on the ground near the sheep, dashing back into cover with flashes of bright orange that warmed the heart.

They were worth the walk and the wait.