A brisk easterly wind made it feel rather cold today.
Back to work again and no birding out of the house but this is not necessarily a bad thing - a random look out of the kitchen window revealed the first "good" bird of 2024 in the form of a Common Buzzard musvåk heading north. Unfortunately it was gone before I could get outside.
Other new birds for the year in the garden were Redwing rødvingetrost, a Mealy Redpoll gråsisik (where were these during the New Year Bird race), two Tree Sparrow pilfink (also not seen the last few days but this is more down to not visiting the right places) and a Chaffinch bokfink.
A trip to the shops produced Snipe enkeltbekkasin, Whooper Swans sangsvane, a few Common Crossbill grankorsnebb and a few White-tailed Eagles havørn. Five minutes out of the car on the way home resulted in a Woodcock rugde:)
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