A group of just over 20 birders met for a walk at Stanwick Lakes yesterday morning at 9am. It was -6C but a sunny day.
Our leader, local birder Bob Webster, organised us for a brisk walk around the frozen lakes where the best birds were some yellowhammers and bramblings on some game cover and a woodcock and red kite.
It was a lovely sunny day and walking kept us warm.
I took the opportunity to give Bob a badge to mark the fact that he has completed 35 years of volunteering for the RSPB - leading walks, doing conservation work, surveys and being a leading light with the local RSPB Group. Thanks Bob - you are one in a million!
A love of the natural world demonstrates that a person is a cultured inhabitant of planet Earth.
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