The patch

I'm into my 20th year of birding the Ingrebourne Valley as my patch and I can honestly say, I still enjoy it after all this time. With the sound of a Nightingale singing every night for the last few weeks plus Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail and a Marsh Harrier being my latest birds seen here, I can't really complain. Ok, the birds are not setting the birding world alight but it's my patch which I share with others and it delivers what it says on the tin! You get to see 100 spieces on average per year and get some scare passage birds and now then  and sometimes get a good patch bird, but we're just waiting for the good one to arrive....

Lapwing