Saturday 12 February 2011

It starts now

I was in Banstead Woods when Ian Jones, a relatively new CFBW patcher, texted me about a Stonechat at Canons Farm. Seeing as this was the most exciting thing to happen there all year - even better than when the farmer dumped huge piles of sh*t in two of the fields and left them there to rot, the previous 2011 title holder for patch thrills - I hot footed it over there and enjoyed the symbol of the early stages of spring migration: