Bird (mini-)expedition

Cycling - but not too far - in search of a few more birds on which to try out the new binoculars. The weather suddenly turned colder and rainy, as it tends to when it sees my bike coming, but thankfully eventually warmed up enough to allow me to eat a hot jacket potato sitting on a bench outside. I headed for a local lake (not the one round the corner from me, which is more of a pond, really) by a route that would take me through an area I hadn't been to before and across a piece of ancient common.

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I returned home as the light was failing, around four-ish. All in all, not a bad afternoon.