well, that was just about as bad as it gets weather-wise for birdwatching...slanting rain...all day. But it was a simple stubble field that was alive with fieldfares, yellowhammers, redwings, skylarks and linnets. Found Calvert and Gallows Bridge Farm and caught up with marsh tit and goldeneye but I think both places will be more productive in better weather. Again a fruitless search for med gull amongst hundreds of black headeds at Wilstone in a biting wind. Best of all it was great to get out with old mates.....