Sunday, December 20, 2009


Greger suggested a walk, so we set off for the Park Lane car park on the western side of Burnham Beeches. But the open space of Littleworth Common looked attractive, so we parked there instead.

Crossing the common, we counted fourteen redpolls in one of the birches.

At Park Lane, we found the car park closed anyway. They're getting a bit high-handed about visitors to the Beeches, I reckon. It's our wood - not theirs.

Anyway, we walked through the Beeches to find plenty of cars on East Burnham Common as usual and barking dogs everywhere. Greger took this nice picture of the stream.

We saw one each of treecreeper, goldcrest, marsh tit, and wren. A nuthatch was hovering, trying to get beech nuts from husks still on the outermost twigs of the tree.

Back in Dorney Wood, snow was beginning to fall from the branches - and on the common, the redpolls had gone.

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