January 8th

Nothing moved on until the 8th when a walk around the eastern pits started out well with a calling Green Woodpecker on Barton Broads and Waters’ Edge followed quickly by a Lesser Redpoll flying onto Waters’ Edge and a Treecreeper in the garden on the other side of Pasture Road. 86 on the list; a Black-tailed Godwit on the foreshore with two different Marsh Harriers over Far Ings, where a drake Goosander dropped in briefly, saw the list move on to 89 hopefully in sight of the 100 before the end of the month for the first time ever.