Okay minus 1 isn't that cold, but compared to the rest of the winter so far, when I arrived at 07:20 I was frozen. Multiple loops around Lavell's and car park field, then Sandford, BSL and off to WSL I picked up all the expected, or hoped for stayers. Red Crested Pochard and Ferruginous being most notable.
But I was also pleased with Mistle Thrush at the WSL/BSL hedgerow, the 2 male Goldeneye at BSL's South bay...my first this winter, then 3 Ring-necked Parakeet over Lavell's mid morning, plus 2-3 Great Black-backed Gulls over.
I scored 63, only missing Fieldfare and Siskin reported by others by the time I left at 10:45. Whilst typing a WhatsApp message has come in a pair of Pintail at LFGP is a more annoying miss, hope they stay til tomorrow.
Missing off the list, but on site somewhere are, Little Grebe, Little Egret, Bittern, Kestrel, Treecreeper, Rook & Nuthatch.
Coal Tit, Grey Wagtail and Lesser Redpoll are all tricky and not recorded in December as far as I am aware. I'll do a more comprehensive list soon, but we can expect 11 more for sure, plus another 9 which have a good chance of occurring in January, if we got all of them and added just 3-4 of the many other possibles, we'd break the 2008 record of 88.
Now is the time to look for Goosander, the first few days in January often have fly overs.
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