Wryneck!

15 Sept - A rare local opportunity for chance look for a Wryneck, one of those scarce migrant species that always gets the pulse racing in birders. A drive over to Sodbury Common, and an initial brief glimpse of the bird perched up, it then dropped between some bushes and after a few minutes wait we spotted the Wryneck feeding, Woodpecker-like, on the hillocks between the bushes. Amazing cryptic bark-like plumage, it moved unobtrusively among the tufts, sometimes only its head visible. Probably my best-ever prolonged views of the species. Also present on the common - Redstart, Wheatear and Whinchat.