Despite having a lovely time playing around at Farmer Teds with the baby and having a nice meal out in Liverpool I was constantly being haunted by the superb wryneck pictures coming out of Spurn.


So when new broke on Sunday evening that there was a local wryneck only 25 minutes away from my house I was relieved. I set my alarm for an early morning arrival, but had to wait a while for the sun to warm up and the bird to appear.
The bird spent much of its time feeding below a small hill just behind a fence and was feeding on a ant hill along the fence line before alighting upon a fence post and flying out of view.
A lovely bird and a excellent Manchester tick.