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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gropperwinch" data-source="post: 1819805" data-attributes="member: 84897">this is one for Ads. Temminck's Stint at Arlington Res today!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />:-O why, with, that, the swallows and a Bonie Gull, I think our crappy little reservoir has had more rare birds than anywhere else in sussex this spring!! I'll put a few photos of the wonderfully close showing Stint, which even my little Penatx Bridge camera got some decent photos of, once I crop them a bit! But aside from gloating, it was a beautiful little bird (surprised some people think they look dull), with a lovely speckled biscuity back, and was also a UK tick. However, the RR Swallow reappearing for the first time in 11 hours an hour after we left has left me in a sligtly bad mood. Even worse was that I saw a distant Swallow with a pale-neck collar (couldn't make out any rufousy colour at that distance if there was any), but it disappeared in among a big group of Swallows and House Martins, we were in a rush to leave and I had to let it go! That bliddy thing better hang around a bit longer!:C</blockquote>