8:30am-10:30 clear and cold,light covering of sleet.The New Year got of to a good start with a red-head Smew on the Railway lake.
Full list of birds recorded - Goldfinch,Greenfinch 2,Chaffinch,Lesser Redpoll 8,Blackbird,Song Thrush,Redwing,Great Tit,Blue Tit,Carrion Crow,Jackdaw,B h Gull,Herring Gull,L B B Gull,Common Gull,Redshank,Heron,Robin Dunnock,Wren,Magpie,Wood Pigeon,Stock Dove 2,Starling 2,G S Woodpecker 1,Green Woodpecker 1,Bullfinch 10,G C Grebe,Little Grebe,Pochard (50+),Shoveler,Teal,Gadwall,Smew,Tufted Duck,Kingfisher 1,Chiffchaff 1,Kestral 1,Collared Dove,Mute Swan,Canada Goose,Greylag Goose,Jay 2 and Pheasant 1,L L Tit and Goldeneye (46 in Total).

Ken,fancy flushing a Green Sandpiper in the east scrub,the last time I done that was way back in the 80s,it flew into one of my nets,shows how much that area has changed.