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Siskin

After yesterday's Sturm und Drang it came as a relief to settle down to ordinary cold, heavy rain and hailstones. Even after going out to fill up all the feeders again I was half determined to go out for a walk though common sense prevailed in the end.

Despite my hopes, nothing unusual turned up on the school field gull flock save a first-Winter common gull.

• Black-headed gull 26
• Blackbird 1
• Carrion crow 1
• Common gull 1
• Herring gull 2
• House sparrow 1
• Jackdaw 7
• Lesser black-backed gull 1
• Magpie 2
• Woodpigeon 4

Great tit

Siskin

Goldfinch

Siskin

A male siskin barging through the spadgers to get to the sunflower seeds was a nice surprise, only the second I've seen in the garden. He was obliging enough to pose for photographs, unlike the spadgers. They're being particularly frustrating because three of the males — the old white-cheeked patriach, the ginger-faced newcomer and one of the very dark slate-grey individuals — keep sitting in a line on the top of the feeder under the rowan tree.

• Black-headed gull 1
• Blackbird 3
• Blue tit 2
• Carrion crow 1
• Collared dove 1
• Dunnock 2
• Goldfinch 5
• Great tit 2
• House sparrow 23
• Magpie 1
• Robin 1
• Siskin 1
• Starling 13
• Woodpigeon 4