Bonus Day

I do like an extra day off at home. Main image is a lovely female Stonechat, captured as we walked back to the car from a wander out to Aberlady Bay; though the biggest sighting is in the extras (in a fit of vanity it's relegated to there as it was a distance away, in poorer light, and heavily cropped). A Grey Phalarope (known in the US as a Red Phalarope, as they get to see them in breeding finery) - normally arrive on these shores after storms, and usually only about 200 seen around the UK all year (and there were a pair here today). Not that I knew what it was, just that it wasn't something I knew, and was therefore worth checking. Actually happened twice, but the first was, as I anticipated, a first winter gull - just hadn't pinned it down to a Kittiwake.

A few jobs in the house done, and Basque sweets for the office packed into the pannier for tomorrow. Ah work. Damn you.