My family and I arrived back yesterday, our Malaysia Airlines A380 glided in gently onto the tarmac at Heathrow 05:35 and just for once, our baggage came through almost before everyone else's
I think it's fair to say a 2 hour delay sitting in the Boeing 737 at Manila, followed by 3 hours 35 minutes flight to Kuala Lumpa, then 12 hours 45 minutes flight back to London in economy takes it's toll.
By 20:00 I was out of it and fell asleep immediately, waking 05:36 it was time to get some patch time and good grief, 12 degrees feels darn cold after 32 degrees pretty much all the time, maybe dropping to 29 at night.
60-70 Swift were heading over Lea Farm when I got to the bottom of the car park field, the brisk Northerly pushed me to move on quickly.
Nothing on BSL, nothing on Tern Scrape, a few warblers calling.
At Lea Farm, 22 Gadwall all in the SW corner, 2 Lapwing, a lone Oystercatcher over South and to be frank that was about it.
I'm happy to see I didn't miss anything heart breaking, the Black and Sandwich Terns would have been great, but the latter was untwitchable anyway.
I'll spend a day or 5 writing up my fun, but limited Philippine birding, for those who might find it interesting.
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