Not to be daunted by the weather the Thursday Streakers were out again today in Worcestershire's still very snowy countryside. Given the weather, we thought we would make it a bacon and egg day with the prospect of a lunchtime bacon roll as reward for a bit of extreme butterflying in the morning. The day certainly brought forth a fine array of headgear but sadly little in the way of eggs. We did have original plans to search for eggs on a country lane to the south west of Redditch where a female had been spotted last autumn but one look at the state of the aforementioned road persuaded us that this might not be a good idea. As it was, I needed a push to get my car out of the cafe car park after lunch. We decided to head into Redditch proper to search for eggs near the town park where we had found eggs before Xmas on the reasonable expectation that at least the roads might be better there. This certainly proved the case but, away from the roads, the snow was even deeper!
Anyway, not to be daunted we spent another hour or so shaking snow off blackthorn stems to look for eggs without success before returning to our cars defeated. The only good news was that the lunchtime bacon rolls were very good and the eggs we had found in the park before Xmas were still there.....and to think it was only a few weeks ago we were complaining about the rain.
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