The photo above was taken by my mate Nick in Lesvos earlier this spring The Zitting Cisticola, alternatively called Fan-tailed Warbler, is a comparatively common bird in continental Europe and has often been speculated as next on the list to colonise the UK. To date, however, this has not happened and it remains an exceedingly rare bird in the UK with just eight accepted records to the end of 2022. So when one was found in Kent earlier this year I had the car packed and ready to go just as a report of the bird doing a runner hit the alert services not to be seen again. Fast forward to this Sunday just gone and a keen eyed birder found another, or perhaps the same, bird at a place called Walberswick in Suffolk just along the coast from the Mimsmere RSPB reserve. Slightly irritatingly, I was very close to this site the previous Friday when I went to see a very confiding juvenile Black Stork – see here . To put its rarity value...