Good start to 2014

Although New Year's Day was horrible, 2nd January was glorious, and the Common looked in excellent order. This is the view across the area where the main populations of orchids, cotton grass and bogbean grow.

On my brief walk across the Common to take my monthly record photographs I managed to find 16 species. Some have started to sing already, including robin, wren, great tit and song thrush. I was also pleased to find a tree creeper and coal tit on Jubilee Boardwalk, and on the main Common there was a female kestrel. In the sky in the distance a buzzard was soaring.

Not bad for a start! Let's hope for a good working party season, so we get all the necessary maintenance work completed.