Unseasonably mild weather temps bird song and flowers 

17th December 15          morning                mid section

v/mild cloudy,  12-13°c,  1011 mb,  S 13 mph

  A barmy 12 degrees in a warm southerly breeze and it feels more like late autumn or early spring than mid winter. Which is probably the reason we have the same bird species day after day. We need some proper winter frost preferably with plenty of sunshine to move the birds around. The small finch flock flew around the Wetland site this morning but didn't settle, so I presume its the usual siskins with a few goldfinch. The usual three little grebe. A count of the mallard (19♂ 8♀) and moorhen (17 inc 3 imm) just to change my routine.

Little Grebe	3	S&W Canal
Mallard	19♂ 8♀  counted btw Compton Rd - Tettenhall Rd,
Buzzard	1 over	Tettenhall Ridge
Moorhen	17 (inc 3 imm) counted btw Compton Rd - Tettenhall Rd,
Black Headed Gull	30	Compton Field
Lesser Black Backed Gull	1	Compton Field
Wren	2 singing	Barleyfield
Robin	7 singing	mid section
Song Thrush	2 ( 1 singing)	mid section
Great Tit	3 singing	mid section
finch flock	c25 flew around WL before leaving to NW, prob same as mon/tue ie SK & GO,
Chaffinch	1♀	Eddies Alders
Goldfinch	prob few in with SK flock  WL,
Siskin	prob making up most of flock c25 WL,