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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JWN Andrewes" data-source="post: 3678810" data-attributes="member: 7131">February 12th: part IIIAfter enjoying watching the Boar we decided to have a go at the New Fancy View Goshawks. A bit early in the year perhaps, but the weather was spot on, glorious sunshine and barely a whisper of a breeze at this point. Alas, it was not to be. Trying to shoe-horn a serious attempt at raptor watching into a packed itinerary day is always going to be a risk, and this time it didn’t pay, and after a little less than an hour I was getting keen to be moving on, so on we moved. In the end it turned out that we arrived at Plock Court for the Penduline Tit just as it became active after two hours of lying low, so while our Gos stake-out may have been unproductive it was far from costly. He sat up beautifully, the Penduline Tit, feeding in the bulrushes actively, hard to spot when not moving, but never still for long. As we left we picked up a nice Stonechat for the year and then half an hour later we arrived at Arlingham. This really was along shot, the Richard’s Pipit not having been reported for six days, and sure enough, we came away with nothing more than a couple of Mipits, a few Stonechat and some largish flocks of Fieldfare, but the weather was still nice, and it was good to be out and about, and we were still well on schedule for the day’s final set-piece.</blockquote>