I went looking and hoping for a Yellow wagtail – found none – but, all of a sudden, a bird flitted up from the grass not far ahead, disturbed by a passing dog, and my eye picked out a flash of white at its rear end. I had my binoculars to my eyes in seconds, scanned all around, but couldn’t relocate the bird. I walked on, keeping a careful eye out, noting the prospecting Pied wagtails and browsing Linnets, but no sign of that white bottom. I was about to turn around and head home when another roaming dog put all the birds up and she of the white rear end, this beautiful Wheatear, popped down quite close to me. My first of the autumn!