Poor weather = elusive birds

On Monday 23rd August, early morning heard a flapping in the bathroom and released unharmed outside a Small Tortoiseshell butterfly that some how got in. In the afternoon at work, a Migrant Hawker dragonfly seen flying around at the back SE corner of the Burrage Centre where it settled on a hedge. After finishing work 30 minutes late, I was finally out in the field at 6pm, checking Corton churchyard, Corton Old Sewage works (where more trees have been taken out of the entrance path to the left) and the static carvan site has exponentially grown right up to the northern edge of the old sewage works site, I wonder how many people staying there they are camping right next to an old sewage works? So much so that you can't walk around the edge of the old sewage works anymore. The sunny weather had been replaced by thick grey coud and gloomy conditions. Corton new sewage works I walked around too plus the North Denes, the enclosed area and the car park opposite Sparrow's Nest. No sign of any birds whatsover save for a Whimbrel calling over the Sparrow's Nest. As I walked the edge of the car park trees for the twentieth time a tweet from Alison saying the Redstart was still at the car park was a rather surrel moment. Alison got out of the car and explained the bird had been very low down in the bushes on the southern end of the car park edge. A dog walker walked past and the dog went into the bush and I immediately heard the alarm call of the Redstart from the bush just south by the hedge, I still couldn't see it and then from the next bush along, I still couldn't see it. OFB drew up and unilaterally decided to go into the bush and I saw the Redstart very briefly fly up to the bush by the fence where it disappeared never to be seen again. Persuading OFB to leave the bird in peace to go to roost, that was it. best birding of the evening was when I got back home and a calling mewing Buzzard had 2 of these birds circling the skies just to the north of the house. On Tuesday 24th August, at about 5.45pm again after work, I was down on the North Denes, this time the sunny weather earlier had again been replaced by thick cloud and a stiff breeze, despite doing 2 circuits again no sign of the Whinchats and nothing in the enclosed compound or Netposts. No sign of the redstart either. A tweet from James W and I drove stright there and parked opposite the NE corner of Dip Farm seeing James we viewed the area from different viewpoints and saw the Pied Flycatcher flitting very briefly in the Hawthorne bush, Great Tit and Robin also seen. Plus a couple of Muntjac Deer on the path and my first Stoat of the year too.