Friday 14th February - ... and More rain

... As I sit here looking at the increasing puddles outside, I did get out for a while yesterday and had very good scope views of Northern Goshawk somewhere in Sussex - Presumed the same bird on 3 occasions, which was great. But all this rain is rather hampering my enthusiasm to go birding and get soaked - looking at my list for 2014, I'm on 508 - But probably should be more and I've now got 3 weeks before the next trip which, with everything else in the diary, gives me 4 or 5 attempts to see more UK birds pending the weather.