Shelduck and Pintail on site today
Redwing perched up high around the sheltered lagoon
3 Shelduck - main lake, wader scrape
4 Pintail - main lake
1 Goldeneye - sheltered lagoon
2 Water Pipit - grazing marsh
6 Redwing - sheltered lagoon, Q.E.W.
1 Peregrine - charing cross hospital
1 Iceland Gull - main lake
January bird highlights: Jack Snipe, Brent Goose, Bittern, Goldeneye, Yellow-legged Gull, Iceland Gull, Water Rail, Water Pipit, Siskin, Chiffchaff. Colour-ringed gulls recorded recently include a Norwegian Common Gull and a Danish Black-headed Gull.
Early flowering plants: Marsh Marigold, Cowslip, Ragwort, Daisy, Winter Aconite, Snowdrop, Hazel, Primrose, Stinking Hellebore, Butcher's Broom, Gorse, Early Crocus.
Insects: (January) Buff-tailed Bumblebee, Red Admiral, Non-biting Midge species.
