I had a dream (that's got to be a famous saying or song title one day) about three weeks ago where a corncrake (but actually it was a bit bigger, probably a Greater corncrake) was strutting around the car park of the offices I used to work at in Stockport!! I can say for a fact that it was never one of the 50 plus species I saw from the office window, sadly.

Paul, you have been working too hard if you keep dreaming of birds with feathers

been working hard trying to stay afloat in these difficult times so haven't been able to get out anywhere near as much as i normally would, it's been getting me down more than i had cared to admit to myself before this morning when i awoke from a dream where 53 bee eaters flew over my head heading south. i got time for 2 counts both reaching the same tally and was half way through texting ian for the points and the alert for the rest of you, when sadly i woke up... bugger.