MJP birding 15 January

I spent an hour and half birding with Francis Buckle at Eversholt and Milton Wood this morning from 10.10 and then from noon until 12.35 I was with Neil Wright at Brogboro' Lake. A beautiful crisp sunny morning with plenty of birds on show.... my highlights were:

a couple of Siskin at Eversholt, where 2 Coot were the only birds about the frozen lake, and a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker heard just once but not seen. I flushed a Woodcock from beside the wallside stream beyond Milton Wood. a Red Kite was circling and hunting at the junction with the lane from Eversholt with the road east of Woburn Park.

4 GREATER SCAUPS (2 drake, a female and the original juv) were all found at Brogboro' Lake plus 42 Goldeneye counted.

5 Buzzards and 4 Kestrels were all seen en route - Martin J Palmer