Christine's walking & birds blog

Greger has gone off to have Christmas lunch with colleagues from the Society of Swedish Engineers in Great Britain, at (where else?) Garbo's.

So I went for a brisk midday walk on the wetlands. A sparrowhawk cruised low over the reed-beds and a buzzard was perched on one of the tall lights on the sewage farm. In "the corner" a water rail was still foraging round the willow, and several teal and a shoveler were also in the Roundmoor ditch. Two meadow pipits had joined the usuals, but no Cetti's sang today.

I hoped for bearded tits and short-eared owls as both have been reported here recently, but in the meantime a stonechat on East Marsh was a nice sight. I was too cold by this time however to hang around and see if she had a male companion.