I had a pair of partridges waddling down the road in front of me as I drove to work this morning, walking quite calmly away from me until they finally decided to take flight, which wasn't much of an improvement as they carried on down the road at windscreen height until we reached a bend. It isn't that common to see them, I think every occurrence is logged here. Seeing a pair is certainly unusual. It was a bright morning which really showed up the plumage on a yellowhammer on the phone lines. Curiously for the last week I have been seeing a large party of crows perched on an electricity supply line (the sort with three parallel wires).
Once upon a time you could find me birding on the Thames marshes almost every weekend through the winter. For various reasons I am now seldom able to travel to good birding sites. I am lucky, however, to live in the beautiful Chiltern Hills and this blog is to document the birds that I see on my own patch.