An early start in snow and with a bright sky. Excellent walking conditions over untrodden snow. To begin, however, I spent half an hour doing a garden watch and recorded an impressive 17 species at or around the garden feeders. Blue, great and coal tits, chaffinch with gold and greenfinch, collared dove, house sparrow and robin were the regular visitors. Some photos below. On the walk the resident female sparrow hawk disturbed the roosting jackdaws and a party of 16 long tailed tits called from snowy hedgerow. A photo above. Redwing and fieldfare were in all available berry bushes and yellowhammers called from bushes around the River Ash. Skylarks called overhead and 2 mallards were flushed from the River Ash south of the Ford. Most of the photos show scenes from oer the golf course and along the Ash Valley. With more snow forecast maybe a repeat walk tomorrow. The final photo shows a redwing feeding on hawthorn.
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