During the morning I walked along the Millstream from the Lunsford lane entrance as far as the Millstream lake and then back again.I was hoping to find a Water Rail or Jack Snipe as in past years,although I had no luck with either of those species I did however flush a Common Snipe,see the Kingfisher again and get quite close to a Heron.During the walk I saw very few small birds apart from a Robin,2 Blackbirds,1 Reed Bunting,1 Song Thrush and 6 overflying Redwing.On the way back it started to snow again.

The last time we had prolonged snow like this we lost our Cetti`s Warblers,lets hope it ends soon but not before some good birds turn up.