Brian and I could not put it off any longer! For us an eighty minute drive is uncommon – the longest we have travelled for a single chook for a yr or two!
After a protracted stroll up and down the river between the highway and railway bridges at Cattawade (and some ‘is it or is not it?’ false alarms) we walked again to the automobile to seize our lunches. We stopped to scan North Marsh (Brian had introduced his ‘scope for me to make use of!) when a few actually smashing Surrey birders alerted us to the goal chook simply twenty or thirty yards in entrance of us! We spent the subsequent half an hour watching it via the telescope and taking images, earlier than consuming our lunches and heading northeast to Alton Water (Of which: extra later!)
