Roller at Aldborough

Cold and windy not conducive to good photography especially when the bird is a quarter of a mile away! However better to have a record shot than none at all which was what happened on Tuesday evening when we dashed up for a Western Orphean Warbler in Hartlepool - the bird was so elusive that we really only saw it when the local asbo kids kicked the fence behind it and threw stones and flushed it.  Still a lifer for Wayne and two British ticks for me in a week.

The return to Normanby and a Roller

Well as you can see our broadband is back on and we are back at Normanby.  Still not been into the Park though as I am still unpacking and organising the house plus its been blowing a gale since we returned, hopefully if the weather improves and we get a still day I will try and get the imerging Snowdrops but in the mean time whilst sorting through boxes Wayne found a memory card from Sri Lanka with these not bad shots  of a Roller sitting on a road sign as we were leaving Yala NP …………