Spotted Flycatchers

27 May - Spotted Flycatcher is an increasingly hard bird to catch up with in the UK - it is fairly unobtrusive, and easily overlooked - I had a tip that a pair were being reliably seen in Corsham Park. There is an avenue of magnificent mature oaks here, and after a short wait I had several views of an adult feeding (flycatching) and calling. I didn't see one at all last year... yet when I was a kid (a few years ago now! they bred in our garden in a nestbox!