Cot to Nanquidno

Having arrived last last night we were unable to go for the gray catbird but with no signal where we're staying we decided to stick to our original plan and head into the valleyx. With no news on the catbird be headed into the land of no signal.

Cot Valley, like most of them has loads of good cover and finding anything is a bit of a challenge. We tried both standing and watching and walking but neithrr method produced a great deal. Conditions seemed perfect with no wind but the whole valley only produced 5 chiffchaff and a female blackcap.

We pinged into signal at the bottom of the valley and it told us that the catbird was still present so we decided that we'd walk the coast path to the bird. Just beyond Nanquidno, Rachael started to get a blister so we decided the long walk probably wasn't the best idea.

We turned back and headed into Nanquidno. There were a few more birds with 6 chiffchaff, 5 blackcap and a couple of smart firecrest. Nice but hard work.

Back to the digs for a cuppa then we headed off to look for the catbird at Sennan. I was expecting it to be a bit of a scrum but i was pleasantly surprised by the lack of people, only about 50 at 2pm.
The bird was pretty elusive to start with but we got views after about 30mind. Fairly skulky but well enough to see all the features. After disappearing again for a further 40 mins is appeared and showed really well sat out in the open for several minutes. The  scope views were great, the pics were not! After seeing the bird well for a 3rd time we called it a day.

Despite the frustration of the morning it turned into a good day.