A few from the last few days or so. A. trip over to The Knap lake Barry recently, just for a stroll, produced a familiar Tufted x Pochard hybrid. At Cosmeston the Little Grebes are now in breeding plumage and have started whinnying [and the Great Cresteds have been displaying too]. Only my second Common Gull of this winter was on E lake the other day, on a calm day when the water produced a nice pattern around the bird. This morning on a walk through Cogan Wood I spotted a load of Redwing in an adjacent field, guessing about 100 in all – the most I’ve seen this winter. Birds were coming down for seed as usual, including a Marsh Tit.








