15th Dec - very icy after rain and frost last night, sunny am, cloudier pm, 4C, light- fresh NW

Bittesby; after lunch I walked over Bittesby fields especially to see the bird food crop area.  On the way I flushed a Snipe from the grass beside the track.  At the bird food crop area there were ~30 Chaffinch, ~50 Linnet, 14 Yellowhammer and 3 Reed Buntings.  On the winter wheat fields about 30 Fieldfare were feeding among Rook, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow and Lesser-Black Backed, Herring and Common Gulls.