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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Helenelizabeth2" data-source="post: 1836506" data-attributes="member: 36938">It's a drug, isn't it?I think that little bit of accidental twitching on Friday whet my appetite and I found myself spending the weekend wondering about that Bluethroat.  After a bit of token pretend resistance, I succumbed this morning and drove over to Welney under a cloudy sky.  Said clouds then had the effrontery to rain on me (well drizzle heavily) for the first hour or so of my visit, which was bad news as my coat was still in the coat cupboard.  But, eventually, the sun emerged and I was rewarded with really superlative views, only a few metres away, of aforementioned birdie, perched in the teazels singing away, showing off its buttercup yellow mouth.  It even put on a couple of display flights over our heads before disappearing over the back of the Lyle hide.  Very nice.  133. Bluethroat (lifer - my first, I think, since White-Tailed Eagle on Uist last year)And there was also a very smart, summer plumage, male:134. GarganeyJust off to search and see if I've had Black-tailed Godwits this year yet.ETA: Nope, don't appear to have had them:135. Black-tailed Godwit</blockquote>