Lovely! Nothing as pretty up here today, but despite the glowering cloud all around, there were birds all over the gardens and streamside vegetation this morning. Nutcrackers very numerous (they even saw one flying over Geneva this morning!), Black, Green and Great spotted Woodpeckers, juvenile Bullfinches(young male in photo), still 2 juv Marsh Warblers around (one in the garden briefly), a Pied Flycatcher , a few passing Yellow Wagtails and plenty of Chiffchaffs and Willow Warblers.
Typically, I was standing by the stream behind a neighbour's garden when I saw two Tree Pipits arrive, plus a Lesser Whitethroat. for once the birds cooperated, the pipits posed on the wires at the bottom of the garden later, and better still, the L W came into the tree bordering our property, a life Garden Tick, No. 117! I wonder if one day I'll match the 125 I had on my garden list in 16 years at Selsey in Sussex............
91 Tree Pipit
92 Lesser Whitethroat