Christine's walking & birds blog

A couple who were also birdwatching stopped to chat, and turned out to be hillwalkers too. They told us they'd just seen a wood warbler, so we countered with our woodcock sighting of yesterday. We walked back to the car slowly and saw a spotted flycatcher again, on a low branch just beyond some going-to-seed bluebells.


Greger said he would go and read the paper if I wanted to linger. I told him he wouldn't see the wood warbler in that case, and he reminded me that he's only a semi-birder.

I concentrated on some trees where I'd heard a faint call that I had put down to young siskins; and sure enough I had a brief glimpse of a wood warbler carrying food. It started to rain, so I left it in peace. It was lovely to see a wood warbler, but I missed the buzz of finding a bird for myself.