Deja Vu Birding Part 2

2016 has been a year of deja vu experiences for me. One of the best was the Montagu's Harrier which graced the Axe valley for 3 days in April. Cycling home along Cownhayne Lane on the 3rd day (Tuesday) of its stay, I noticed it being mobbed by corvids about 500m North of the A3052 bridge. After texting people to let them know it was ranging around up there I noticed it had perched on a telegraph pole. Suddenly, deja vu took me back to the 1990s when I had stood in exactly the same place and seen a female Montagu's perched in just the same spot! If only I were still in touch with my then birding pal from 'Plymouth Poly' as it was then he would be most amused to know that I'd now seen my second Montagu's on the same telegraph pole that we saw one on back in 1994/5( I think ). The neural pathways that I damaged in my car-crash in 1996 must be connecting back up I suppose...or, it's just that 20-year-old memories need a jolt sometimes. The same thing happened in 2014 when we had a Kumlien's Gull by the tramsheds. It jolted my memory of one I saw in the same place back in 1994/5 era. I wonder what else I'll remember about birding around Seaton in the 1990s during 2017? I know that I recall seeing a drake Garganey fly up the estuary from the farm gate back in the 1990s just as I did in March 2013. Perhaps, as the Buzzcocks once sang, I was spending my 1990s visits to the Axe estuary "surfing a wave of Nostalgia for an age yet to come"...