Very wet and windy.
First sighting this morning was a flock of about 20 Jackdaws winging their way over to the farmland at the rear of our garden. A few gulls were riding the wind not close enough to tell what they were.
The resident garden cock blackbird was in evidence as ever. He often sits under a shrub and twitters quietly, letting me approach within about a metre. Two robins made their presence felt as always. Although it was raining heavily they were still chasing each other about.
There were a few grey squirrels about today including one on a bird feeder in someones garden. They were very noticeable by their absence during the frosty weather.
As ever the small bird population were showing themselves but only briefly. Wrens, chaffinches, greenfinches, goldfinches, hedge sparrows and house sparrows. The only unusual appearance was by a treecreeper which ran up and down and round and round a horse chestnut tree. First one seen by me for some time.
A buzzard was hunched up in a tree on the edge of the farmland, no thermals to soar on today. Woodpigeons, 14 in total were hunched up on the telephone wires, while a few starlings kept them company.
I disturbed a solitary song thrush in the oak wood and had a good telling off and the orchard was empty today apart from a single collared dove.
The weather forecast is better for tomorrow, I much prefer not walking in the rain, as for singing, forget it.
Any photos used in this blog will have been taken by me on my travels.