The stiff easterly wind of recent days has stirred up rich pickings along the Portland Harbour shore for the wintering Mediterranean Gulls...
...and the Goosander's been lingering on at Ferrybridge © Pete Saunders:
On the back of events unfolding right across England, at the Bill we've been hoping for a grounded or fly-by flock of Tundra Bean Geese but have so far only managed today's Egyptian Geese, some White-fronts and this forlorn Brent Goose in the East Cliff sheep fields...
...Our ineptness on the Tundra Bean front has even led us to do what all the other clueless types who can't find things for themselves resort to and we've tried twitching some semi-local ones: the Lodmoor birds on Christmas Eve eluded us but Simon Craft's duo on the Charminster water meadows today were much more obliging © Martin Cade:
