Stranger on the Shore - Aka Bilk

 Two days of ‘pea-soupers’, where you couldn’t see your hands in front of you, wasn’t of too much concern as we had seen them both before! The worry came with yet another lack of Wildlife all round but the effort was still made! On the Main Pond refugee numbers continue to rise with a

SWAN GOOSE
 appearing from nowhere and further on a new 

Eddy Stobbard Lady arriving from Wales.

With nothing on the Irrigation pond we quickly moved next door where there was something of a heart-stopper just visible through the mist, no not Gorilla's but a putative

RED-CRESTED POCHARD

which was discounted as a weird hybrid by the oppinion that was sought!
Most, if not all, of any other what might be seen as action was confined to the
Northern Paddocks which once again have taken on the guise of a 'flood plain', with mostly Gulls. Most numerous by far were

BLACK-HEADED GULL

maybe amounting to

a hundred or more until a couple of

EGYPTIAN GEESE

started to steal the thunder.

Surprisingly, the second most numerous species of Gull were

LESSER BLACK-BACKED

amounting to a hefty, for here at least, baker's dozen!

PIED WAGTAIL

otherwise would fall under the heading of "a LOT".

Between the Ducks

GADWALL

it was noted that the very few Northern Thrushes (Redwing and Fieldfare) had left behind some of HOLLY BERRIES

MALLARD
and

TEAL
all in decent numbers before the last of the Gulls dropped in but onlr c3

HERRING GULLs
On the Heath things remain dire which did allow us to video ALL that was seen

Taxiing Airbus sandwiched between 2

STONECHAT
The brief run down to Longham Lakes did produce the most uncooperative and unclickable
Green-winged Teal but with 2 far more obliging

GREYLAG GEESE

falling to the Canon.
Back at Slight Return a couple of slices of bread proved an attractant to

even more

aerobatic

BLACK-HEADED GULLs
with the finale being a single stem of 

ROUGH CHERVIL
(thanks John)