Better late than never ..........

8 Aug - Having missed the Little Bustard at Slimbridge, I was very satisfied to finally catch up with it further north at Mickletown, where it has taken up residence in the fields. Almost certainly the same individual, considering it is such a rare visitor ....... good views of the bird feeding in the early morning sun, and at one stage seen in flight, when it had a narrow escape from a female Peregrine. A smart bird being a male, and giving much better views, in the short grass field, than it did at WWT! A pair of Curlew feeding with it gave an interesting size comparison.