Christine's walking & birds blog

Rain forecast - rain never stopped me! - only cissies stay at home blah blah - stride out into Beeches - good start - at least three willow warblers with large tit flock, one singing - bacon sarnies eaten - deluge begins - cagoule on - shelter sought under dripping trees - rain rains on - and on - drenched Alsatian slinks past - followed by drenched owner - wringing wet by now - no birds - rain finally stops - down to pond (of all places) - consider taking photo of ducks stacked up on bit of fencing - can't be bothered - back to car - trousers sticking to legs - drive home - small diversion for emergency Maltesers - find photo I didn't take taken (better probably) by someone else on Bucks website - resolve never to bird in the rain again.

(With apologies to Jane Austen)