The current freezing weather is not really doing my style of random square bashing any favours. The two I picked this week were Kite Green (just east of Henley) on Tuesday, and Rough Hill Wood (just south of Redditch) today. Neither locality gave me a great deal. The first produced over 100 Redwings just before the temperature really plummeted, while today I at least added Sparrowhawk to the year-list.
Fortunately other birders had been more successful locally, giving me the opportunity on Thursday morning to revisit a churchyard near Studley on the trail of a pair of Hawfinches.
I found them quite easily on arrival, although I did have to wait about half an hour to get the above image. The birds were feeding on Yews among a flock of at least 16 Greenfinches, but unfortunately I couldn't get a clear view when they were actually in the Yews.
I suspect these might be the birds which haunted Morton Bagot, about two kilometres away, during November, although I must admit this is pure conjecture.
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