I was in the middle of a pile of ironing when my husband unexpectedly finished work early and suggested we go for a walk in the New Forest . Oh dear! decisions decisions......what should I do? stay in and finish the ironing.........I don't think so!!
It was a bright sunny day, but freezing cold and I mean freezing cold so I put on four t.shirts, a cardi, a fleece jacket and a coat over. Plus tights, socks and jeans, scarf, gloves and woolly hat! One day I will invest in some proper thermals!
We went to Cranes Moor and before we had left the carpark we had already seen, robins, bullfinches, a mistle thrush, magpies, green finches, crows and wood pigeons. It was the bullfinches that made my day though. Years ago we used to live on the Isle of Wight, where a pair of bullfinches would visit the damson tree in our back garden. I didn't know anything much about birds then, so I had to identify them from an old bird book. Since we moved to the mainland I hadn't seen a bullfinch in years but this month I have already seen 4 of them. It makes me realise how I have had my eyes closed for years!
We crossed the road from the carpark and walked across the moor but it was very quiet with one lone robin braving the freezing cold wind to sing us a song.
60. mistle thrush
61. jackdaw
Afterwards we called at Blashford Lakes and had a look in all three bird hides. I especially like the woodland hide and we stayed there for quite a while watching the little birds. Great tits, blue tits, long tailed tits, green finches, chaffinches, goldfinches, and a nuthatch - just magic!
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