Garden watch and afternoon walk

A session just watching the garden birds this afternoon led to a list as follows:

great tit, coal tit, blue tit, starling, jackdaw, collared dove, rook, carrion crow, wood pigeon, blackbird, chaffinch, dunnock, and goldcrest.
Later on, a walk over the golf course added a kestrel, more goldcrests, yellowhammers and great spotted and green woodpeckers. Meadow pipits have returned to the golf course for their winter stay, viewed from New Road and a solitary herring gull headed south over the course.

Hundreds of wood pigeons and assorted corvids filled the sky. The leucistic jackdaw still remains in fields south of the Ford. As the clocks have gone back, the sun was setting by 4.30pm, signalling the end of my after work walks until spring.

Photographs here show local and common garden birds: collared dove, great tit, a blackbird enjoying a windfall and dunnock. Also, several photos showing autumn colours and sunset.