Mild, overcast, drizzle, W 5 - An awful morning to be out and about for our Ted walk and a first visit of the New Year to the local patch at Lade, today being the date we moved down here to the Marsh 18 years ago - where has the time gone... South lake held a couple of Goldeneyes amongst the usual diving ducks and Shovelers, while 20 Teals and five Dabchicks were sheltering in the calmer waters within the willow swamp. Ted flushed a Woodcock from scrub by the ponds, that promptly flew over the embankment and into the caravan park, a male Sparrowhawk flapped over the track and both Chiffchaff and Cetti`s Warbler called from cover. Elsewhere over the weekend we`ve walked out from home across the local farmland noting several Yellowhammers, two Stonechats, 50 Meadow Pipits, 10 Fieldfares, a Common Snipe and a Chiffchaff around Hope Lane.
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