With the cricket season in full flow opportunities have been limited to go birding but the reported Hoopoe in the Cotswold Water Park after work was a temptation to big. The M5 roadworks which had been in place for months had disappeared except one section so the journey only took an hour.
The bird was at Ashton Keynes Cricket Club, rather apt for me. So once parked and onto the boundary it didn't take long to locate the pinky brown exotic looking Hoopoe. A first for myself in the UK. The bird was feeding under the trees on the far side and wasn't put off by a few locals who passed on the footpath the other side of the ground. No doubt this bird had over shot northern europe when migrating. It will be interesting how long he hangs around for. Top bird, and most definitely the best bird I've seen on a cricket pitch.
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