It's that weird time between Christmas and New Year, when you should be tallying up records for the year etc.
I was over at the in-laws (outlaws really) for Christmas on the east coast, where loads of redwings and fieldfares were nice to look at and a few flocks of waxwings (did anyone see the ones in Liverpool city centre while I was away?) were worth hunting out.
Bullfinches and wader flocks on the Humber blew away any festive drowsiness in a brisk northerly on the Humber estuary, but blizzards made things unnecessarily difficult by Tuesday morning.
Aside from that, over indulgence and fun with explosives did tend to interfere with birding (how do you fix a shattered eardrum by the way?), but coming home yesterday I noticed some fairly large pink foot flocks grazing between Scarisbrick and Halsall.
The Richard's Pipits are still around West Kirby apparently _ good birds to start your 2006 year list on, and Peter Button e-mailed to let me know of a flock of 15 twite at the Life Guard look out on Kings Parade, New Brighton.
Continuing the "over the water" theme, Colin Millington contacted me with news of a wasp and a small tortoiseshell on the wing in Barnston, Wirral, on December 24th.
Meanwhile Ron Jackson had a female Blackcap visiting his Churchtown garden in Southport.
This cold snap should bring plenty of birds to your garden _ greater 'pecker and increasing numbers of finches are moving into Dempsey Towers, so here's to a good "garden yankee" somewhere in the next few weeks....
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies.
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