Black stork, Nantyffyllon today at 13:52.

Many thanks to Mark Hipkin for alerting me to a Black stork heading my way over the Afan valley this afternoon! I got onto my kitchen roof and immediately got on the bird, which was around 500 foot up and heading east. I watched it for around 10 seconds, seeing all the features, until the sun burst through the cloud right above it. I took about 5 seconds to get my camera out and switch it on but the bird had gone in that short time. It could have thermaled up against the sun or moved through very quickly as it was losing height when I saw it. Despite a search of the fields to the east at Cwmdu by Colin Gittins and I, the bird was not relocated.