Rickling Green to Rickling Church

Saturday 21/1/2017
In fields both sides of road
Fieldfare 50+ Lapwing 30+ Golden Plover 20+

Sawbridgeworth 18th Jan

A morning walk round the patch. Write up with "atmospheric" photos here.

Patch record number of Cormorants.

Of note:
Little Owl - 1 in same field as last year.
Meadow Pipit - 1 in usual rough field.
Cormorant. a max of 13. A record number for the patch. Not good as the patch cannot support this number. They were flying around a lot - I assume the more regular places are frozen over.
Great spotted Woodpecker drumming!

pm - a Little Egret in the stream by Southbrook. It fished away quite happily despite my standing only twenty yards away.

Garden in the snow

Friday 13/1/2017
Eighteen species of birds visited the garden on Friday in the snow
Starling - Fieldfare - Chaffinch - Blackbird - House Sparrow - Goldfinch
Robin - Wood Pigeon - Bullfinch - Dunnock - Collared dove - Coal Tit
Blue Tit - Long-tailed tit - Magpie - Feral Pigeon - Great tit - Wren