15th April. Egret

For as long as I've been working I've longed for a patch that I could watch on my way to work without taking a detour. Orgreave is almost perfect, apart from the distance problem, and is really starting to come up with the goods. Another misty start this morning almost had me driving straight past, but that would have made me early for work so I had a look anyway and picked up a splendid Little Egret on the far bank. After 5 minutes it had had enough of the constant attention from a couple of Carrion Crows and left west. An Oystercatcher there was also a patch tick.

Women know your place.

With all the troubles in this world perhaps it's time to return to the household values that we held dear in the 1950's.