After too many hours hanging out at the sewage works yesterday I saw the sun poke out and the gloom clear around midday and headed back to try and get some prolonged views and perhaps some pics of the Siberian Chiffchaff. All went to plan once I moved myself round to the other side of the filter bed and found 3 standard chiffs and the Sibe flitting around a couple of bushes close to the fence. Ben has highlighted many times the incredible fickleness of light when observing these birds but they have an "isness" and I drank this bird in fully. At times appearing grey and white and at others much buffer the "isness", which is a subtler form of "jizz", was a thing to behold. No issues at any point picking this bird out from the others, it looks like a different species all together - well to my eyes anyway. The following, highly cropped pics show how appearances can change.
I did have a little look first at the water meadows where the reported Ruddy Shelduck proved itself to be a very handsome Cape Shelduck, which has been popping up off and on most of the year.
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