sat  8/12/12          Cloudy with a slight frost, sunny later.     early morning.


Little Grebe        1 only this morning just south of Meccano Bridge,
Grey Heron        1  fishing in canal nr wolves training grd,
Coot                    1 on canal nr Meccano Bridge,
Kingfisher          1 seen dashing north along Smestow Brook behind prefabs,
Lesser Redpoll  1 flew calling over gardens at top of Barletfield,
Goldfinch            c30 in Eddys Alders,
Chaffinch            c10 feeding amongst leaf litter in Eddys Alders,
Nuthatch             1 calling from fir trees bordering wolves training grd,
Long tail Tit       c10 in hedgerow between canal and the Paddock,

                  Later this morning

A phone call from Angus just before 12:00 with the news of the day  21  waxwing   he had found on Wightwick Fields. With in 20 mins I had picked up Chris and we were watching from the Bridgenorth Rd.

I'll leave angus to give more details. Well done Angus.