A Successful Twitch to South Wales!

I hate thatched-roof cottages. This has been a pet hate of mine for years, not sure what sparked it off really. It is not just because they are so twee and chocolate boxy, it is more to do with the fact they are so pretentious! I am sure that there was a time when most houses had thatched roofs but that was before better more durable and more aesthetic materials were discovered. Nowadays people only have thatched roof houses as a status symbol, a bit like driving a mazda mx or using greenkat binoculars!
Anyway I was on the train 'n' bus on my way to Stockport where I was staying before heading onwards to a mega twitch with Tom and Dan! I got a taxi from the train station to Tom's house, as he and his partner had kindly invited me to stay before our big mega twitch the following morning.
We left at just after stupid o'clock (04:00hrs) and had to go via Lerwick to pick up Dan (er......it may have been Stoke). Once we had picked up Dan, we headed through mid-Wales to Ferryside.
We arrived just before 1000hrs, and quickly made our way to a suitable vantage point. I was amazed how many bird watchers were there. It was not long before Tom & Dan picked out our first target bird, a 2nd winter Med Gull (wow). Not long after that we saw our other two target birds, Red Kite (double wow) and Goshawk (treble wow). This had been an amazingly successful twitch!

I then got talking to some other birders present, and they were apparently looking for a Glaucoma-winged Gull, Britain's first, no less! This bird had allegedly (sorry, apparently) been seen for 20 minuted the previous day by seven well known birders that nobody knew. When we left at around 1800hrs the gull had not been seen, there was hundreds of disappointed birders! Not us, we had a thoroughly successful day having seen all the birds we had come to see. Seriously, we would not have travelled such a vast distance to see a bird that had only been seen for 30 minutes the previous day, that would have been silly..............................................................................