A difficult drive North.
I set off again at 06:00 and made a longer route around Rouen due to it's low emotions zone which made me do an extra 60km making it very Eco-friendly as there is no way of passing the city with out entering the zone and as I had not known about it until just before I set off and could not get a car sticker to make passing through the city legally.
All the way north it rained and basically from the time I left Spain and until I arrived in Albrighton I only switched my windscreen wipers off in the Channel Tunnel.
Birds seen during the drive included Rook (Graja / Corvus frugilegus), Western Jackdaw (Grajilla occidental / Corvus monedula), Red-legged Partridge (Perdiz Roja / Alectoris rufa), Mistle Thrush (Zorzal Charlo / Turdus viscivorus), Mallard (Anade Azulón / Anas platyrhynchos), Grey Heron (Garza Real / Ardea cinerea), European Goldfinch (Jilguero Europeo / Carduelis carduelis), Eurasian Magpie (Urraca Común / Pica pica), Common Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus), Eurasian Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto), Common Starling (Estornino Pinto / Sturnus vulgaris), Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus), Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Red Kite (Milano Real / Milvus milvus), Western Marsh Harrier (Aguilucho Lagunero Occidental / Circus aeruginosus) and Common Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula).
Once I was under tunnel I made my way along some immensely busy motorways with huge amounts of traffic, heavy spray and dwindling light which made for a scary drive but I was in Albrighton and at my Mom's by 17:00, knackered but safe.
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