Birds and dust.

Just back from a very pleasant bird watching trip. Still very hazy in the mornings so not great light conditions for birding plus lots of dust from passing trucks once we turned off the tarmac road. Took me a while to persuade my DH to have a trip out but he seemed to enjoy it once we were out there. It wasn't too hot and we didn't have to go too far out of town before we spotted loads of egrets and ibis not far from the roadside in a patch of wet ground. I was afraid to take my binoculars (so many security issues here, people will stop and ask what you are looking at, not always in a friendly way) so there were a lot of birds I couldn't identify. All in all though, a nice trip and just good to get out of the city.