Whilst taking part in the annual RSPB garden bird watch this morning I was very surprised and overjoyed to briefly see a Water Rail skulking, almost invisibly, amongst shrub stems and dead leaves . it was presumably eating the fallen sunflower hearts from the feeders above, dropped by the quarrelsome Greenfinches and House Sparrows. Also of some note was 2 Blackcaps, male and female. The feeders are amongst shrubs opposite my home and adjacent to Pwll y Waun pond.