A Bullfinch enjoying the fruits of the hedgerow this morning...

and the Snipe were feeding in the mud while the Stonechat in front of them is on lookout...

A wintery river bank...

Smile for the camera! A Goldfinch looking very smart in the winter sunshine...

A dusting of snow on some logs...

and a Meadow pipit in the meadow...

meanwhile a Heron is fishing and watching over a group of Black-headed gulls on the scrape...

but gulls are not always just gulls... while most of the group were Black-headed gulls, the picture below shows that in fact two of the group were Common gulls (they have yellow legs) and one is a juvenile Herring gull (larger and brownish)...

A New Year and the Winter sunshine lights the main pool...

while the Water rail tiptoes across the ice...