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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Chapman" data-source="post: 3299329" data-attributes="member: 69491">IanA trip to Twickenham yesterday (32 years after my first visit). Staggered arrival times meant I had some time to kill waiting for a mate. No optics but a decision to spend thirty minutes on the bridge outside Twickenham station looking up the dirty culvert in the direction of the stadium paid off.Pigeons coming down to drink and getting amorous, Jackdaws and Magpies squabbling in the bushes alongside the culvert, two Moorhens territorially flashing those white undertail coverts at each other in the gloom at the bend of the culvert, a Jay showing so ridiculously well in the sunshine it succumbed to a photo on my phone and at least eight Kingfisher sightings flashing blue and orange along the culvert with occasional piercing calls. Reminiscent of my first in the centre of Oxford from my childhood - long before I ever thought of putting a number alongside a bird name.I wonder how many birdwatchers wandered by that culvert without stopping. Certainly this twitcher would recommend it if a birdwatcher has fifteen minutes to kill on the way to one of the semi-finals at the weekend. 3<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />All the bestPaul</blockquote>