The Best Laid Plans...

My brother had come up with the kind of plan that gives the lie to any notion that only the fairer sex can multi task. We would take in a triple bill of bands at the Cambridge Corn Exchange on the Saturday night, stay nearby overnight and then hit the wilds of East Anglia for various goodies today. Unfortunately for us and the plan everything hit the rocks this morning when a spot of car trouble meant that after one AA visit we had to abandon our scheme and  head back to Northants without any Goshawks, Woodlarks or any Parrot Crossbills on the list to worry us.

Both Little Egrets and Wigeons looked nice in the sunshine.

Not wanting to write the whole day off we chanced a stop at Blatherwycke in an attempt to see the Hawfinches that had been seen earlier in the week. Our first stop at the lake produced sightings of Mandarins in their usual spot and a selection of the regular wildfowl. From here we headed over to the churchyard to look for the finches. Two folks were already searching when we arrived and had sadly drawn a blank and we too managed to achieve the same result. We waited around for half an hour or so of fruitless searching but decided at that point that that today was not going to be our day and headed back home.

Blatherwycke Vistas.

Although I didn't take my usual peek over the fence at the menagerie my brother did and reports that both the wallabies and the white Rheas are still in residence. It's a shame that such a promising day led to nothing else of note but at least there's always another day.