Here are the highlights of the month so far:
Sunday 11th January - Wallcreeper on St Pierre Cathedral.
Tuesday 20th January - Walk in the forest at Les Grandes Barraques, 2 Yellowhammers, Marsh, Blue, Great and Long-tailed Tits, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Woodpigeon, Nuthatches, Short-toed Treecreeper, Jay, Chaffinches, Robins, Blackbirds
Thursday 22nd January - Dipped on a Great Grey Shrike at Amagney, 1 Water Pipit, over 100 Starlings, about 10 Fieldfare, a few Mistle Thrushes, 2 Willow Tits seen plus others heard, 3 Siskins seen plus others heard, Greenfinch, 2 Dunnocks, Grey Heron, Buzzard. A Roe Deer was seen running away from the hunt, ducking under a fence to escape.
Friday 23rd January - Back to Amagney but still no sign of the Shrike in very wet and windy weather - 4 Fieldfare, Starlings, Mistle Thrushes, 2 Tree Sparrows in a large group of Chaffinches, 1 male Great Spotted Woodpecker on a fatball, Buzzard.
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