[Alice]

Rather drab visitors to the garden, Spotted Flycatchers (Muscicapa striata) are nevertheless very welcome. We see them every morning perched on power lines, keeping an eye out for passing insects, then swooping down to catch them and returning to the same perch.

[Alisdair]

Lovely to see it, Alice. They may be drab but are charming birds to watch. Here in Sussex UK we have until very recently always had them in our fields in summer, hawking from the hedges for all the flies that the sheep droppings feed, keeping me company by moving further down the hedge as I approach, but they haven't turned up for the last two years - perhaps harsher conditions much further south on their migration route.