21st Jan

What a day! Rain, rain, rain and then cloud and a cold wind. I ventured out mid afternoon as the rain stopped for a couple of hours with the thought that there might be a Peregrine coming in to roost on the Humber Bridge or maybe a Med Gull flying past with the stream of Black-heads and Common as they moved to their roost at Read’s Island past the bridge. Well a strange lack of passing gulls of any species and an even more impressive lack of Peregrines suggested a move was in order so as a last ditch attempt to save the day I headed for East Marsh in case there just might be a hunting Barn Owl and amazingly there was! So that made the January tally 96 species with no partridges, no Peregrine and still no Fieldfare.