update

Not a lot to report with the continuing mild weather.
The cold night just over a week ago did produce the sight of four Little Grebes huddled together by the boats at the Wildside Centre, perhaps will be same tonight.
Song Thrushs are singing and Nuthatchs calling with some Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming.
Redwings seem to be moving into the fields having gorged on the berries and are now joining Fieldfare.
So we are not seeing displaced birds and neither do we seem to be getting Redpoll and Siskin. In the surrounding farmland Yellowhammer and the 2 Partridges are conspicuous by their absence. is this also due to a poor breeding season caused by last years late spring?
Finally a belated record from last year which I initially hesitated to put up was an immature/female Merlin on 17th November at 3pm. As often happens with this species it was a one day wonder being seen flying from the bottom of the Lupin field towards barnhurst sewage works. (I saw an adult male at Featherstone last Saturday).