At last something to write about, the weather has been cold with snow over the last couple of days, but today although cold with snow flurries there were
 at 4 signs of a thaw .With the weather becoming milder with rain, I fear floods maybe our next problem, there is alot of water on the land at the moment.
There were some good birds on the feeders today amongst the common species, Lesser Redpoll, Nutatch, Coal Tit, and a great bird in the form of a Brambling.
On the patch 33 Lapwing on the frozen pasture were kept company by 40 Common Gulls and a Raven .Fieldfare(30plus), and Redwing(20 )were feeding on the thawing snow .A really good count of 47 plus Skylark was the highest of the winter so far.
There are still good numbers of Starling with 800 plus about today. There were 8 Meadow Pipits flitting about and a Green Woodpecker was heard. There was a flock of 10 Goldfinch over and a Stock Dove passed over.
The patch list now stands at 52