The shooting season prevented megoing very far at all today, but I still managed a tick in the form of c20 House Sparrows. The size of the colony has gradually been declining at the farm, but the installation of several nest boxes should help their plight.
Also out there were monstrous numbers of Redwing and Fieldfare, with easily 150 of each. I have never seen this many at WALBOC although numbers do tend to increase towards the back end of winter.
That should conclude January. I still have six or seven birds I will be hoping to catch up with before the end of the first winter period, and then the summer migrants will hopefully boost my list to around 80 and then I'll need to start doing some serious patch-watching to hit 100.
WALBOC Pathclist: 85
WALBOC Yearlist: 61
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