Our last trip out was to see the Two barred Greenish Warbler at Spurn a few weeks ago, so after many wet weekends since, we ventured out. With Kevin C still needing to see a Dusky Warbler we decided to go to the closest one available at Talacre in North Wales. Myself, Bob K and Kevin left a dark Castleton at 7am and by 8-20am were striding through the dunes at Talacre and after 20 minutes we reached the small copse that the Dusky Warbler had been frequenting. Earlier reports that the bird had been showing well were a little confusing as the bird was not finally seen until 10-45am, a two hour wait with only a Chiff-Chaff to get the pulses going. Kevin C`s wait to see Dusky Warbler will have to wait as he could not get in the scrum to see the bird that was on view for 15 seconds. His comments are not to be printed here! Now as all you birders out there know a Belted Kingfisher (from the USA) had been seen along the River Ribble near Brockholes Nature Reserve, Preston in Lancashire on the morning of the 8th of November. It had not been seen since despite lots of local birders looking for it. You can imagine the shock that a few of us had at Talacre when news that the Belted Kingfisher had been once more seen in the same place as last Monday! Kevin C`s comment that he will get a Dusky Warbler eventually but a Belted Kingfisher maybe not, so are we going? Off we hurried to the car and onto the 50mph M6 to the news that the Kingfisher had not been seen since, typical. Despite this we got to Brockholes N.R. and thought that the car park seemed pretty busy. We met a few locals who told us that the bird had again disappeared as it did last week, I wonder where it goes was the thing on every ones mind. What followed was a long hike, up a steep bank trying to see any part of the river without actually descending the slippy, dangerous slope (People had fallen and injured themselves) We certainly gave it a go, but the Jackdaw sized Belted Kingfisher can now be put on my 4th county that I have Dipped the bird in Staffordshire, Yorkshire, Aberdeenshire and now Lancashire. We slowly made our way back to the carpark and met two of East Lancashire`s finest birdwatchers, John W and Dave B (freshly recovering from a recent visit to the NHS) who filled us in on this mornings single observer sighting. We departed for home after an interesting day out! Dave O