Female Blackcap 
Female Blackcap 
Herring Gull 
Little Grebe 
Little Grebe 
Moorhen 
Moorhen 
Tree Sparrow
I have never known a time at the end of a year when there have been so few birds in my garden and so few to be seen even when I have been out and about. Other people have been commenting about this happening in their gardens also. We have had a reasonably mild winter so I expect they don’t need to feed in the garden. Hopefully, at the start of next year, I might see some of these winter visitors again before they fly off for good.
A walk around Brodie Pond gave me a chance to see these Little Grebes and the Moorhens. There were a few Mute Swans there and many Mallards.
The female Blackcap continues to visit the garden regularly and the male occasionally. The number of Tree Sparrows continue to grow. At one point I had over twenty. So I am hopeful of them nesting in the nesting box once again. There has been up to nine Long-tailed Tits coming in fleetingly.
I got a gift of a small birdbath for Christmas and I positioned it quite close to the window so if anything went on it I might have a chance of getting a photograph. So far nothing has been near it, except to my dismay, a Herring Gull. it is probably situated too close to the window but the Gull was definitely unperturbed!