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I didn't much fancy a Sunday walk on a cold, grey, windy day with occasional dandruff flakes of snow, at least in  part because I'm sulking after the news that the cackling goose has relocated to Pennington Flash (taking the Mickey or what?) So I stayed home. I'm going to have to go out tomorrow, if only because I need to buy a pile more birdseed — I put out another pine cone and the last of the fat balls yesterday and the sunflower feeders have had a bashing today.

• Black-headed Gull 4 overhead
• Blackbird 2
• Blackcap 1
• Blue Tit 2
• Carrion Crow 1
• Coal Tit 1
• Collared Dove 2
• Dunnock 2
• Great Tit 2
• House Sparrow 21
• Jackdaw 2
• Magpie 1
• Robin 1
• Rook 2
• Starling 13
• Woodpigeon 2

House sparrow, one of the second-rank males

The school playing field was a lot quieter today — just forty black-headed gulls — but with a couple more each of large gulls and jackdaws.

• Black-headed Gull 40
• Carrion Crow 1
• Common Gull 6  (5 adults, one 1st-winter)
• Herring Gull 7 (4 adults, one 3rd-winter, one 2nd-winter, one 1st-winter)
• Jackdaw 17
• Lesser Black-backed Gull (2 adults)
• Rook 11
• Woodpigeon 1