Sunday 8.00 2C and lots of impatient birds waiting! Chaffinch 30, Reed Bunting 20, Brambling 10 (including some males), Linnet 1, plus robins, blackbirds, blue and great tits, song thrush and dunnock. There were 2 great spotted woodpeckers drumming in the vicinity and a vocal nuthatch in Pony Wood. Single mistle thrush and redwing in the field leading towards Aldcliffe village. Several hundred frightened pinkfoot geese over, fleeing from the artillery down on the marshes.