December 5th 2008

The morning was spent at home watching the garden with 8 Blackbird, 3 Starling, 3 Dunnock, 6 Wood Pigeon, 2 Collard Dove, 8 Greenfinch, 5 Chaffinch, Winter Wren, Robin, 6 Blue Tit , 2 Great Tit and 2 Coal Tit while overhead Lapwing 3, Black-headed Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Common Gull, Rook, Crow and Jackdaw noted.
Down the pond with Dave in the afternoon for our coffee and cake just as it pissed down so we gave up after a feeble attempt to find something different other than the GND or RNG and drove round the Grandborough valley. Managed two Buzzards at Woodbine Farm, 50+ Fieldfare near Grandborough Fields Farm with more around Sawbridge and Sawbridge Grounds but bird of the day was the first winter Glaucous Gull in a field behind Sawbridge Grounds on the Grandborough to Sawbridge road resting among a flock of Herring and Lesser Black-backed Gulls. On the way out we had 10 Tree Sparrow by the side of the road north of Woolscott.

Richard