A New Year and a new start.

Here we go again!.............................the start of a new birding year.

Up at daylight to get a head start on our 2014 birding list. This an opportunity to catch up with all the birds we tend to overlook for the rest of the year and also to discover how our more common birds are disappearing and are so much harder to locate.

At the end of daylight hours our list had grown to 76 species...........not a bad start but not exactly special.

Highlights of the day were Great Grey Shrike, Whooper and Bewick Swan and long-tailed duck.

Have posted some of the pictures from the today in alphabetical order.

 

 Blue Tit getting ready for a house move in 2014

 Chaffinch - getting harder to find

 Coot - getting more common

 Cormorant

 Dunlin

 Gadwall

 Grey Partridge - getting very hard to find.

 Greylag goose

 Herring Gull

 Knot

 Little Egret

 Marsh Tit

 Med. Gull

 Mute Swan

 Purple Sandpiper

 Redshank

 Ringed Plover

 Robin

 Robin

 Tufted Duck

 Turnstone

Whooper and Bewick Swans