28th December

I haven’t posted for a little while as it’s been so quiet. I went down the river this morning hoping the cold might have pushed birds off any frozen water. A group of 11 Cormorants flew over along with a single Goosander and a small group of Common Gulls was by the railway bridge…

This Grey Heron caught the early sun...

But after this the mist closed back in…

A large flock of geese was on the far side of the river but the mist was so thick I couldn’t see anything but vague shapes.

Yesterday there was a group of around 40 Curlew feeding here…

I flushed a small group of Teal…

a flock of 13 Wigeon was on a  riverside flood pool, 150 Golden Plover on the fields south of the bridge and a single Oystercatcher was still present…

And finally, in the misty distance today, a reminder that spring isn’t that far away…