Another frosty morning, and with the north-easterlies still coming in, I hoped for something interesting to turn up. The first notable sighting was a juvenile Meadow Pipit on Pit Tip Top. Not very notable in itself, but it let me approach to within five meters as it sat in one of the mud puddles. At the new Pit Tip Pond, a female Green Woodpecker was drinking from the bank, and a Water Boatman was swimming about in the half-frozen water. The odd Fieldfare and Redwing were about, and at Dawson's Corner a male Bullfinch showed well as it fed on berries near the footbridge.
At the Mill Lakes there was no sign of the Little Grebe, Pochard, or Snipe, but a Sparrowhawk flew to the trees by Main Entrance as I approached the Peninsula. There were about ninety Black-headed Gull spread across the lake, but no Commons amongst them. Whilst looking for the Snipe, I got a good, but brief, view of a Water Rail moving in front of the reeds on the far bank adjacent to Mud Island. On the way back another Sparrowhawk was hunting the gardens along the Spinney path, and later one was over Khalsa Wood. A juvenile Herring Gull was over Broad Valley Stables to the west, and a Coal Tit was seen in Bramley Wood close to Dell's Gate.
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