12:20 to 1:40pm. Weather: cold, grey, snow flurries & snow on the ground; slight Easterly breeze.
Patch visit to see if the harsh conditions had pushed anything different into the area. About an inch of snow lay all about & it was with the satisfying crunch of it underfoot that I made my way around.
Fortune Green Entrance:
Great Tit - 2 initially but the most frequently seen species.
Crow, Woodpigeon, Magpie, Robin.
Goldfinch - 3 over initially, several more seen later.
Green Woodpecker - 1 just off the main path, foraging in the snow before flying off. The same or another seen later, near the brambles, flew up from the ground & then off into the trees near the chapel.
Long-Tailed Tit - 2 feeding parties of several individuals seen.
Coal Tit, Blackbird.
South-side:
Sparrowhawk - what looked like a male cruised through, putting up woodpigeons & other birds in the vicinity.
Redwing - 3 over initially, up to 20 over &/or at various points in the cemetery.
Song Thrush - 1 possible quickly into shrubs, watched another foraging amongst a tree's branches as yet another sang nearby.
Chaffinch, Wren, Greenfinch, Blue Tit.
Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 flew north then again seen in the east-side.
UCL Sports Grounds:
Fieldfare - 1 over as I looked over the sports fields, then as I walked the east-side one alighted & rested in a nearby shrub where it took on a classic winter pose - a nice site tick.
Black-Headed Gull, Common Gull, Starling - all over the almost deserted snowbound field.
East-side:
Jay - flitted over the path to the remembrance garden.
Goldcrest - 1 heard in the eastern sector.
24 species.
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