The early birder catches the grebes 

28th November 15         morning              mid section

cloudy,  3-6°c,  1011 mb,  SW-S 13 mph

Whilst I was lazily making my way to site Ian was clocking up the highest little grebe total this winter. Five in all including a new bird still showing much summery plumage. We met on the Barleyfield which apart from distance small flocks of finches and tits was pretty dead. We walked the canal together but could only find four of the grebes, unfortunately the brightly coloured new bird was the one we missed.

Little Grebe	4	S&W Canal
Moorhen	5+ imm	S&W Canal
Robin	1 singing	Newbridge boats
Redwing	2	mid section
Goldcrest	1	1  in tit flock Hanging Grds,
Long Tailed Tit	few	few in tit flock Hanging Grds,
Coal Tit	3+	Newbridge boats feeder
finch flock	c10 over Hanging Grds but too distence to separate,
Chaffinch	1♂ 1♀	Newbridge boats feeder
Greenfinch	few	Newbridge boats feeder
Goldfinch	finch flock Hanging Grds must be mostly Goldfinch,
Bullfinch	1♂ 1♀	Newbridge boats feeder