After yesterday's trip to Norfolk, we made arrangements to travel to Hinxworth in Hertfordshire if yesterday's Hoopoe was again reported today. We didn't have to wait very long as the bird was reported as present at 7.16am.
We left at 10am and arrived outside the church grounds an hour later. As we walked through the church we added to the donation box at the gate and continued along the footpath to view the third of three small horse paddocks. The Hoopoe was busily feeding among the short-cut grass. We watched it for several minutes before it suddenly flew up into the conifers bordering the paddock. It soon returned to feed again, but was quite mobile and would fly to a different paddock each time.
We spent three enjoyable hours watching and sometimes trying to relocate the bird, but it always remained distant for photographs.
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| St Nicholas Church |
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| The paddocks |
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