DAMSELS IN DE-STRESS

Just hanging about doing what comes naturally.

Voyeur

We decided to take the morning off and headed for RSPB Saltholme for breakfast and a walk. While in the café there was an excited shout of "Pratincole!" (google it) which isn't something you often hear shouted at breakfast in polite society, and the place emptied in a flurry of scraped chairs, including a job interview taking place at the next table. We were very laid-back, finished our coffee and strolled on down, being overtaken at intervals by twitchers who'd been called in on the network running as fast as they could to the hide. Of course it was gone by the time we got there, dawdling to look at the flowers, insects and a young fox on the way, but we did see somebody's very blurry photo of a smallish, brownish, greyish bird. And we saw avocets, shelduck, great crested grebe, shovellers and lots more there. I hope all the twitchers had as pleasant a morning as we did.