The seemingly compulsory title 'Spotted' Flycatcher (or the many variations) was just too cliched so I went for this even more hopeless one.
Friday the 13th didn't bode especially well for birds but I had a thirty minute saunter anyway. I checked School Farm but saw nothing and so headed down the footpath that straddles the cricket pitch. There were plenty of birds about but were flitting so quickly between the dense foliage that the brief glimpses they afforded rendered them un-identifiable. Consequently I decided to settle down and wait it out. My decision was justified. Soon, a small , nondescript, streaky brown bird hopped onto a small branch just a few feet away from me. Brilliant. it soon left but before too long a different bird appeared and I had the privilege of watching two Spotted Flycatchers for a short while. They disappeared for about ten minutes before one bird showed on and off for another ten. There were two of them and the habo looks good so who knows how much more I'll be seeing of them...
All my WALBOC Spot Flys have been passage birds in Autumn at the farm on the Airfield so this was extremely unexpected.
Oddly, my last two yearticks have been small, brown, nondescript passerines but I have enjoyed them more than most.
WALBOC Patchlist: 104
WALBOC Yearlist: 102
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