Better late than never

This photo is mainly just as a record that I actually got out on a birding walk with a group of friends on 8 January 2018. My main reason for pushing myself out the front door was to catch up with friends. One look at the weather forecast for that week and I decided that, if I was going to head over to Carburn Park, I had better do it. The temperature was a balmy PLUS 1C-3C! Windchills for the next few days were in the -30Cs.

The light was not good for photos on this walk and most of the birds were very distant, as usual, at this location. Funny how it always works - if one is walking along the edge of the river, the birds are mainly on the far side. We did see 29 bird species, though.

This Christmas bauble was hanging, with others, on a tiny tree in the park, and I can never resist taking a quick shot or two if I come across things like this. As with a previous photo, I've 'removed' the ugly piece of green tubing that was threaded through the loop for hanging. I'd never seen a decoration like this one.

Later in the day, a friend very kindly picked me up and we went to the meeting about the recent Christmas Bird Counts. What an enormous amount of detail and facts are collected each year - most impressive and valuable!