The cold, wet weather has made the ground muddy and getting about the countryside on foot is difficult. There are still a few migrant thrushes around, but not in anything like the numbers in the autumn. Large mixed flocks of crows and jackdaws gather on the young wheat fields prior to a communal roost in the nearby woods. Jays appear to have continued to increase in number and rarely a day goes by without seeing at least one. The mistle thrush has been singing for a few weeks now and it is possible to hear the occasional song thrush practising for the upcoming breeding season. Goldfinches are not yet coming to the feeders in the garden but a flock of up to twenty individuals can regularly be seen feeding on weeds in the field beyond the garden. The bramble finches have moved on but chaffinches still abound.
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