The year has started birdily. A day out, but not a bird race, on the 1st got us 97 species, although nothing to photograph apart from a Robin who was just not quite brave enough to take food from me. On Saturday we caught up with the superb Black Redstart at Shoreham, again in rubbish light, and on Sunday we had a jaunt to Rye Harbour and Dungeness. Dunge was rubbish, but Rye was good, the start birds were three Twite. We only saw them well almost at dusk, hence the rubbish picture. Today’s star bird was a Sparrowhawk: it’s taken 123 species to get one.
All that and a badger from the back window on Saturday night makes it a good start to the year.
Robin
Black Redstart
Twite