First day back at work and it is snowing. Car tracks running up the curb all over the estate.
One car on the bypass had mounted the central barrier and was balanced on top. Two people at work put thier cars in the ditch.
A great day to start back to work.
Went out early this morning (10am!), to Ivinghoe. it was really cold -3 C. Spotted a Stonechat. Soon got fed up with temperature and went to Hillside for coffee and biscuits, where we got Greenfinch and Greater Spotted Woodpecker. (3 YTD 46)
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Late afternoon and getting cold. Gulls flyinging by the 10’s to roost.
Tufted Duck, Common Cormorant, Common Coot, Great Crested Grebe, Common Gull, Common Teal, Wigeon, Shoveler, Mute Swan, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Greylag Goose, Canada Goose, Grey Wagtail (13 YTD 43)
Walk with Helen to add to bird list:
Lapwing, Jay, Long-tailed Tit, Jackdaw, House Sparrow, Chaffinch, then in Aston Clinton Pied Wagtail (7, YTD 30)
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Also saw Kestrel and Goldfinch (2 YTD 23)
Walk with Helens folks, along canal then up into the woods:
Song Thrush, Coal Tit, Wren, Moorhen, Mallard, Little Grebe, Goldcrest, Red-legged Partridge, Pheasant, Robin (10 YTD 21)
January the first means a new birdlist. Speant new years eve at Rosie and Ians.
Here are the first entries:
Red Kite, Collared Dove, Rook, Common Starling, Wood Pigeon, Blackbird, Redwing, Magpie, Black-headed Gull, Great Tit, Blue Tit (11 YTD 11)