22nd November - Night frost -4, Cloudy most of the day, a couple of short brighter spells, light N, 5C

Pretty chilly this morning, so quite a shock after our recent mild weather.  Plenty of birds were visiting the feed station, including 3 Pheasant, Jackdaws, Magpie, Collared Dove, smaller birds included 15 House and 4 Tree Sparrows, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Great, Blue and Coal Tit.  A Nuthatch was also present, this occasionally made forays elsewhere, including one around the top of the church tower.  Four Siskin were flying around too.

Quite a few thrushes were visiting the Yew trees to stock up on the berries, 2 Mistle Thrushes, a few Fieldfare, several Song thrush and 20+ Redwing.  The light was not good, but the photo shows the main plumage details as these two sat in the hedge.

An afternoon visit to the local reservoir produced 11 Goldeneye, 3 Shoveler, about 40 Gadwall as well as mallard, Tufted Duck, 8 Teal and about 80 Pochard, later 4 Goosander came in to roost. The 3 males and single female can be seen swimming past the Mute Swans in this photo.

One main event this time of year is to wait for the gulls to come in to roost and hope that there is one of the scarcer visitors with them, like a Mediterranean or Caspian Gull, these have been seen here in recent days, but not found today.  There were several hundred Common Gull in the roost this evening.  The following photo shows the gulls beginning to gather to roost.