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Nature walks throughout the year I finished work early and decided to spend the afternoon down at the brooks having a relaxing stroll around. When I got there I found that a wryneck was on the reserve, and there were lots of people there just to see it. Instead of having a relaxing wander I got a bit caught up in all of the excitement and tried my best to catch sight of it. I think I saw it flying away from all of the twitchers as I was approaching the place where it was last seen. If that was the wryneck, then that was the last glimpse I got of it. The loss of this potential 'tick' was made up for by several other good sightings - two female redstarts that entertained us all while we waited in vain for the wryneck to reappear, about 8 yellow wagtails that were doing their usual trick of feeding from the mud mushed up by the feet of cattle and a female adder in slough that was dozing in some brambles. Also a single common lizard sprawled out on a fence.
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