Gary Howard's birds and wildlife

It snowed for much of the night and at dawn we had around 4 or 5 inches of the stuff lying all around. The garden feeders were dragging in plenty of birds so I spent a while photographing from the warmth of the bedroom.

Lesser Redpoll - still 10 around, one is ringed.

Jay

Fieldfare

We took the boys down to the Sevenoaks wildfowl reserve for a few hours in the afternoon. It looked rather lovely in the snow and the kids had a fantastic time. Bird-wise it was rather poor with wildfowl numbers quite low and little of note; not even a goldeneye or a goosander.

Chiffchaff