Unexpected Nightjar

I do look for these every year on my heathland site but finding perched birds is not easy -- this passage bird on a Humber wetland site just got up from next to a path and then perched in an oak before returning to its chosen pile of wood - as the first pic shows they are nothing like as easy to pick up as the open images tend to suggest

a few forest shots from last week

my first nest of the season and by far the most exposed I have ever seen --

Nightjars

after 30 years of looking for Nightjars you appreciate that they are not cryptically patterned for nothing and finding them is damned hard work