one for sorrow

08-10-26 The forecast was great so I caught a couple of buses across town to Cammo. This is quite a palaver so I waited for a really strong forecast. Unfortunately the weather did not remotely match the forecast and instead of sunshine it was overcast and the day was largely a waste of time and energy. A jay turned up and almost saved the day. Had it not, I would not have bothered to blog this outing which was mostly just recording one greedy magpie eating all the bait I was putting out for other birds.I'm not sure I've ever visited Cammo in the Autumn. Winter is good for jays and nuthatches and Summer for butterflies but at the unsunny crossover there is a good chance of neither hungry birds, nor butterflies. That seemed to be the case today. When I arrived I went to the walled garden. I went via the curling pond but the daylight where I put out food for the birds was nonexistent. I left some bird food but there was only a robin mooching about and I wouldn't have been able to get…