1st week of January 2023
I saw in the new year at home, 'celebrating' the stroke of midnight by trying to get my daughter back to sleep after people inexplicably began letting off fireworks from about 22:30. This inauspicious start continued later in the morning - usually I get my year list off to a nice start with 10-15 species seen from the living room window, but this year it was a paltry five, Woodpigeon, Collared Dove, Starling, Blackbird and Black-headed Gull.
We had a quick family walk at Whitlingham, racking up about 20 species, including Little Egret, Little Grebe and three colour-ringed Black-headed Gulls.
Over the next few days a steady flow of common birds were added - House Sparrow, Feral Pigeon and Jackdaw at my inlaws in south Norwich, a flock of Pink-footed Geese over the city centre on 3rd, Goldcrest, Wren and Jay at New Mills and a Song Thrush along Lakenham Way. I also heard and then spotted an Egyptian Goose high up on the office block on Queens Road, quite a way from water.
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