A start to 2021
On New Years day I have often spent the day out with my sister at a nature reserve to build a good total of birds to start the years list but not being possible this year, I had to make do with our garden and the farm at Bluntisham. However I did manage to see a respectable 17 species despite the damp dreary weather. Having recently put up a bird feeding station at the farm I was pleased to see it in use by bluetits, great tits, long tailed tits and a robin. A walk round the orchards provided lots of fieldfares and redwings, starlings, blackbirds, wood pigeons, wren and dunnock. I also added to my list later, mallards and moorhens, a buzzard and chaffinch and just before it got dark at home I heard the unmistakable noise of a pheasant and not being visible from the house I went outside and spotted it on the neighbours garage roof! I am hoping we may get a bit of sunshine in the next few days to enable some decent photos!