The Big Twitch

Well todays the day we go on the biggest twitch of our lives - yes in one hours time were heading off for Manchester airport to catch a flight to Thailand to see(hopefully or my life won't be worth living!) Spoon-billed Sandpiper.  As there are probably only a few hundred pairs left in the world we thought we ought to go and see them(2!) in their wintering ground before they are no more.  So three weeks in Thailand hopefully should do it but we plan to travel round a fair bit and catch up with another critically endangered bird although they have just found a few thousand in Myanmar and that is Gurney's Pitta.  As usual our luggage allowance is taken up with optical equipment so should have plenty of photos to post on our return hopefully there will be a stunning shot of a Spoon-billed Sandpiper.  If we get wi-fi any where I'll try to keep the blog updated so watch this space.