What a change from yesterday this morning brings. A bright sunny, still morning, with a chill in the air, the perfect winters morning for a walk. A light frost clings on in some more sheltered areas. Heading through the car park a Jay can be seen scratching around in the grass along with two Black Birds before all three birds spook and fly off.
At the top of the dell a Great Tit comes to land in the bare branches of a Blackthorn. It starts calling encouraging all the other Great Tits in the area to join in soon the air is full the of sound of Great Tit calls. Below the caravan terrace bridge, I spot a fluffy brown bird preening itself, wings stretching out occasionally to get to those hard to reach areas, its not until its head emerges from its plumage do I identify it as a female Bullfinch. More Bullfinch join her several bright red chested males included. One repeatedly launches of a lower branch towards a fluffy Old Mans Beard seed head, grabs a seen and falls back down to the branch it came from, before going again.
Jackdaws gather in the Tamarisk below the glass observation point, bursting out of tis branches in unison as I approach. A small raft of three Guillemots are separate from a larger raft of ten. Only 15 Guillemots remain on the ledge, though as the lower ledges stream out most of them join the leaving party.
Just inside the woodland coming up the diagonal path, movement in some Brambles catch my eye. A Gold Crest flits around a clump of Brambles before heading up into some Ivy them snakes its way up an Ash Tree. A Great Tit join the Gold Crest making it look even smaller.