There haven't been many birds in the garden at all. Blackbirds, robins and dunnocks seem to be the main residents. It was a delight today to suddenly get four long tailed tits on the fat feeder. The first time that I ever saw a red kite it was being mobbed by crows and they still don't like them. In Chesham on Monday a single crow was seeing off a kite over the Watermeadow car park.
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.