A throughly miserable day but ............

A quick look at BirdGuides this morning had me soon leaving the house with these words ringing in my ears -"You must be mad - have you seen the weather"
On arriving at Frampton I spent some time in the car as the rain was horizontal. Looking out over the extremely wet grassland there didn't seem to be any swallows anywhere. But the rain eased and I walked round to the reservoir where someone (very wet) showed me the red-rumped swallow hunting near the cows. My first for Lincs and first for the UK. Then someone else (equally wet) said have you seen the dotterel? Very distant but a dotterel nevertheless. Then there was sand martins with the barn swallows - a year tick. I soon noted a common sandpiper on the far side of the reservoir - the first for the reserve this year apparently and my fourth year tick within quarter of an hour. This birding is easy I'm thinking. After a coffee, a very wet person then noted two little ringed plovers (yet another tick) and two splendid looking spotted redshank before deciding enough is enough. I'll never get dry at this rate. So off I went home missing green-winged teal, another red-rumped swallow and God knows what other treats. But at least I am now dry