Christine's walking & birds blog

Dorney

A morning visit to the common found most of the yellow wagtails still present. I counted twenty as they flew up into the hedge. Two very yellow ones stood out beautifully among the red berries in the hawthorns.

The thirty-three I counted yesterday is a record in the years that I've been watching them on the common. My highest previously had been fifteen.

It's difficult to tear yourself away from these birds. Just when you've decided enough's enough, that insistent call makes you raise your bins for one last look - and you start counting them all over again.