I've been wondering when the expected " winter Birds" are going to put in an appearance in my dinky patch. No Redwings, Fieldfares, Bramblings etc have turned up at all. Well, not round my way. There's been loads of Whoopers about 8 miles south of me, and some Fieldfare flocks even further south, with a few Redwings. But no mention of Blackcaps at all. But ...at last ... a female Blackcap popped up in the garden hedge, only about 3 metres away, at 1325. Today's turn-up Blackcap might, of course, just have been a "stayer". Either way, I was pleased to see it. Another New Arrival is Pete Dunne's " Diary of a Low-Rent Birder" which I bought as my upcoming Birthday present ... but needless to say I couldn't resist reading it, and have got through a sizeable fraction of it already. The only problem being, I'll probably now only get crap presents from, er, not many people. I can't blame them. Nearly all presents you get from relatives etc are not very good. And apart from that Blackcap, I've seen almost nothing, due to a whole concatenation of things happening .... a bloke coming to fix our gutter, the woman over the road needing loads of buckets of water because her boiler's bust, I've had to ferry the cats to the Vet with The Significant Otter, then it started to rain, and now it is getting dark and wet and very cold and I've made the tea.......... CONCATENATION .... CON ....... Common Gull ONC ........ Common Rosefinch NCA ........ Magnificent Frigatebird CAT ........ Crag Martin ATE ........ Arctic Tern TEN ........ Common Tern ENA ....... Oriental Pratincole NAT ....... Northern Waterthrush ATI ........ Grey Partridge TIO ....... White-tailed Plover ION ...... White-throated Needletail If you can't remember what that book is up at the top there, the full details are at the far end of this lovely link ...
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