No time at all to be out in any meaningful way but managed a walk in the nearby Botanic Gardens one afternoon after work - and ended up being locked in as we lost track of time / hadn't realised the opening times had changed.
All in all much the same as usual, although there was a Blackcap munk feeding there and several Redwing rødvingtrost. A Nutcracker nøttekråke was rather approachable - as they often are at this locality during the autumn / winter when they are around. Some people are saying that the Siberian / Slender-billed Nutcrackers sibirnøttekråke are more or less defined by their tameness. In the Botanic Gardens Nutcracker has "always" been quite tame so I'm not sure about using this behaviour as an ID feature. That said the extent of white on the outer tail feathers seems to fit the Slender-billed form.
What I should now do is go through the images of my previous Nutcrackers from the Botanic Gardens and look closely at the outer tail feathers. I think we all know this won't happen until well after I have retired.
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