A sad day today - my favoured pair of boots have finally seen the inside of the dustbin. This morning I could no longer ignore the fact that I did not have any feet! My trusty pair of comfy steel toe capped boots had one leak too many and my feet were blue and rather cold. I felt like a displaying blue footed booby when I was walking! So I have gone and got a new pair of lined, water proof boots, much warmer!
Having been rude yesterday about the year list I have obviously spurred the local birdlife into action - we have had two additions this morning. The best being a brief fly by from a single waxwing. Seen more as a silhouette and heard calling as it flew from the berry desert that is the office garden - it was way too late for our berries the local fieldfares and redwings had devoured them by the end of December! Waxwing was the first species recorded this year that was not seen in 2009 so a bit of a bonus bird.
The other addition was far more mundane - two grey plovers at the north end of the reserve.
Dom