So I got up at 0630....hmmm....rather gloomy and occasional light rain...what the heck, I will go and look....and thats when it started raining hard....so in the car I sat as the gloomy became slightly less gloomy and some Crows wandered by...I wound the window down and a Robin rewarded by actions...after half an hour I went home for breakfast....
....and the sun came out....
0900 - 1100 SW gusting f4-5 cloudy with occasional sunny periods, a little light rain but warm
Jackdaw joined the list immediately as did a Chaffinch. Wren, Blue tit, Blackbird, Magpie, Jay, Green Woodpecker, Linnet, Woodpigeon, 6 Stock Dove, Meadow Pipit, a singing Willow Warbler, some singing Skylarks, Long Tail Tits, Yellowhammer, Kestrel, Chiffchaff, Starling, Goldfinch, Pied Wagtail, Feral Pigeon and a nice Mistle Thrush completed the round....
....and on the pits...for the WeBS count...
12 Mallard, 36 Coot, 2 Moorhen, 19 Tufted Duck, 4 Great Crested Grebe, 6 Little Grebe, 71++ Black Headed Gull, 1 Herring Gull, 2 Grey Heron, 29 Greylag Geese, 15 Teal, 4f Pochard, 5 Mute Swan, 9 Cormorant, 16 Shoveler, 1 Snipe....
Singing Willow Warbler....nice :-)
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