I found this bird on November 20th but it was an inconclusive sighting so I
didn't put it on the blog for fear of social ridicule. There was a voice of
doubt in my head saying that it was just a fat Skylark flying very quickly.
However on the 23rd I received a BTO bird track newsletter that mentioned that
the warm southerly airflow in early November had resulted in a large number of
Swift sightings of different species. I thought maybe it could have been a Quail
after all and so I contacted Arfon and told him to keep his eyes open next time
he was wandering through the stubble fields.
Ian Morris