08-08-2020
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14.00 - 15.00. ClYs passed me regularly as I walked along the slope - 2 noted as I could distinguish a male and a female but there may have been more. I saw at least 8 ClY during the day - I don't say that very often! That includes one patrolling up and down the scrub alongside the railway tracks seen from platform 3 at Westbury station while I was waiting for a delayed train home. Surely a contender for the least likely place to see a ClY, this one also getting the prize for the best compensation yet devised for the ineptitudes of First Great Western.
Simon Crampin