Having been away from home a lot this winter I have actually been at home this weekend, although spending much of it in bed with a bad cold. A look back over the blog revealed that I was at home for the same reason on a working day 12 months ago. Opening the back door this morning I could actually hear a skylark. Not unknown but on such a fine Sunday it was nice not to have the bird song drowned out by lawn mowers and power tools. I haven't seen much in the way of birds at home although the dunnocks were displaying yesterday. The cold weather seems to have held bacl the flowering of the forsythia. Normally I would expect to to be just about to break but it will be a few day yet.
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.