Clapton (Berkeley) south of Severn house farm. WRYNECK.

After seeing a report of a WRYNECK in Berkeley I looked on twitter and found out a local birder had sighted this bird at Clapton near the Berkeley Power Station. After about  10 minutes of the report I shot off down to the farm and started heading south. I accidentally scared a whetear which was also feeding along the sea wall and it flew down onto the mud of the River Severn. There was also a grey heron,  but he flew down river and rooks and jackdaws from the farm flew together looking for a good place to feed.
 Unfortunately, I scared the wryneck from the path about half the distance from the sighted place but didn't realise it was actually the bird as I've never seen one before so I thought it was just a meadow pipit. I walked on a little further an was pleasantly surprised that a common sandpiper flew from some of the mud and flew on a little further. This was quite unusual as in past years there have been winter records of these birds in the pill but this individual was probably a late migrant. I walked on until I found the birdwatcher who had sighted the bird but said that it flew into the hedge.
 Half an hour later, I was still there. The birdwatcher had long gone and another birdwatcher came who I recognised. "The Gloster Birder." After another quarter of an hour an oystercatcher was sighted and black headed gulls, a flock of 10 wigeon, a cormorant and 4 mallards a flew past with at least 15+ meadow pipits and 10+ linnets overhead.
 I walked back and saw the whetear again but then from the small bushes on the sea wall the WRYNECK flew up. He was very wary and after taking some awful shots, because of my batteries, he flew into the crop field and I ran back to the Gloster Birder and we walked up back to the spot where I saw this amazing bird. He phoned some other birdwatchers, took some digiscoping photos as the bird flew up onto the fence from the field. At this point I really had to go and as I walked closer to this great bird it flew up on to the post and flew back down south. I called to the gloster birder and he walked back down to where the bird had landed. Fortunately the bird was sighted on the last corner before going to the car and that had meant he'd amazingly flew unseen North to where I refound him. I passed two other birdwatchers and got in the car and went home. Two buzzards which I saw on the way up had gone and I felt quite relieved with what I had just seen.
This evening I went back down at about 17:00 but this time I cycled. On the way down herring gulls were feeding in a field but when I got there, there were only 50+ black headed gulls with a few common gulls. I cycled a little further down and a curlew flew from the mud,  a cormorant was drying his wings out and the sun was right in my eyes. I hadn't seen the wryneck but when I cycled back I passed a birdwatcher and sadly still didn't see the wryneck so I feared the worst and believed it had flown off.
On the way back I heard a chiffchaff in the bushes but as I passed a few fields I could hear meadow pipits and pied wagtails. When I went passed the Berkeley deer park a buzzard flew quite close and landed in some trees but the best bird I think was a coal tit calling in the little village of Ham near Berkeley. 
When I got home I sighted a few species of gulls flying over but the light was fading and to summarise the day it was very good with some excellent encounters.      

 Whetear

Awful record shots of the WRYNECK but showing extremely well with sightings down to 2 metres but due to my cameras batteries the photos came out awful.