A mild month which dipped at times into the weather expected of winter: cold, frosty days bringing relief from dull gusty days.
Sounds of the start of the year: Pink-footed Geese, Curlew, Wigeon
My year began as ever on the beach for sunrise.
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| Pinkfeet at sunrise |
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| Pinkfeet at sunrise |
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| Curlew, flying south off the sea |
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| North over the sea |
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| Black to white: flocking Lapwing and Golden Plover |
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| Golden Plover, more brilliant than any firework |
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| Champagne and cranes to toast the new year |
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| Lobster Benedict brunch |
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| Sun lowering at 14:00 |
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| Common Cranes |
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| All aboard! House Sparrow, Long-tailed Tits, Great Tit |
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| Mute Swans on flooded marshes |
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| Flooded marshes at dusk |
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| Glossy Ibis juvenile with Curlew |
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| Cley beach |
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| Scanning the sea |
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| Little Egret |
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| Stonechat male |
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| Stonechat female |
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| Black-headed Gulls flying to roost |
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| Blue Tit investigates a nest box |
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| Nuthatch, garden |
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| Fieldfares |
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| Fieldfares, Redwings and Starlings |
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| Open views |
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| 6mph for the River Yare |
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| Alder catkins and cones |
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| Chiffchaff |
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| Beach huts, Wells |
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| Dunlin |
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| Red-breasted Merganser, male |
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| Waxing moon over Wells harbour |
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| Grey Plover |
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| At Titchwell beach |
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| Sunset over Thornham marshes |
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| Song Thrush |
A Song Thrush sang at sunset, a beautiful song that is now heard infrequently.
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| Hello London Docklands |
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| At the O2 for Depeche Mode |
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| Good morning London |
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| Black-headed Gulls |
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| Snowdrops |
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| Blickling lake |
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| Old oak, a woodpecker's perch |
A Great-spotted Woodpecker knocked from an old oak, a second responding. A true sound of early spring!
My sounds of January
Wigeon
Pink-footed Goose
Curlew
Common Crane
Song Thrush
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