January Highlights PWC2025
The first month of #PWC2025! January can be a rollercoaster of a month as a patch birder. The buzz of January 1st, when everything is fresh and new soon feels like a distant memory when you are struggling for a new species midway into the month. That said, it can kick up some oddities that are hard to come by for the rest of the year, especially if hard weather comes in. There has been a hint of hard weather movement this month, with a few patches picking up things like White-fronted Geese and Smew, while out of place waterbirds at others. February will hopefully do one of two brings, bring colder weather pushing birds around to find suitable feeding or even off the continent and this looks set to happen with colder easterlies from the continent coming in after the first week of the month or what could happen towards the end of the month is temperatures rising a little giving the first glimmers of spring. This may get the first Oystercatchers on the move inland, or get things like Pink...