Yesterday was a rare gulling session in the sense that the gull in question was rare and I rarely watch gulls... On an unsuspecting Sunday noon I found myself venturing to B and Q to buy paint for the kitchen walls. As exciting as this endeavour was (not), I found myself getting that itch to twitch something a bit further afield. For the past few days I had been eyeing up a Squacco Heron at Pagham Harbour as well as a Whiskered Tern in Romsey - however, driving two and a half hours down south held little appeal to me. Being due on holiday in a matter of 3 days I felt I had to get the twitching side of me out of my system before looking at rare bird sightings helplessly from abroad for two weeks. So when the holy red exclamation marks popped up on Birdguides, my initial reaction was one of excitement followed by confusion. Excitement that a first for Britain had rocked up to Cambridgeshire and confusion at having never heard of the bird. After mulling over whether to do the hour and twe...