** Waxwings In Snodland.**

On our way home from Ashford today Pam, and I took a slight detour via Snodland, just in case the Waxwings was showing. The place we stopped at was on the corner of St Benedicts Rd to check out the large berry bush. We sat and waited for about 10 minutes, and a few birds flew in, about 4 waxwings. They settled on the top of the bush, then when a few cars turned into the road they flew off, they seemed quite skittish today. Where the road is situated I thought this was a quiet area, was I wrong, being a Sunday  it was like Piccadilly Station, cars, vans dog walkers youngsters going by. Talking of dog walkers, while I was waiting there this guy wearing a brimmed hat came up the road towards me.I looked at him, then I looked at the dog, and thought what a strange looking critter.... not the dog, the guy. No I am just kidding, it was Alan  of http://snodlandblogspotcom.blogspot.com/. He came over and we started to have a chat, when the Waxwings came back, about 8 of them in the same bush. I started to take a few shots of them when this other guy who had been up the road watching them came over to talk to Alan. He must have seen me with my camera sticking out of the car window trying to take some pictures, but it didn't stop him talking in a loud voice, loud enough to make the Waxwings move on.
The Waxwings had also been feeding on the apples on the ground on the corner of Pout Road.
Below is a couple of photo's that I did manage to take. I decided to post them as a record of my sighting, .
It was good to see you again Alan.

** February 1st. Halling Bird Sightings.**

Today I took a stroll down to the river, well seeing as I was going to feed some carrots to the horses, only I wanted to start my February Halling Bird List. The  tide was high at 11.30am, it was quite cold, with the odd light rain coming down.
Species seen between home and the river: Great Spotted Woodpecker Greenfinch, Robin, Dunnock, Blackcap, Wren, Great Tit,C/Dove, W/Pigeon, H/Sparrow, Starling, C/Crow, Magpie.
Species seen on the river from the railings at the bottom of Ferry Rd was:  Mallard(8,m3,f5)B/H/Gull, Common Gull, Herring Gull,Moorhen(9) Cormorant(4) Lapwing(roosting 29) Redshank(roosting 33)
Species on the green just before the 1st stile: Redwing(4) Song Thrush(2) Mistle Thrush(1) Blackbird(4) Pied Wagtail, Green Woodpecker.
When I got back I spent a while garden watching, and the following species came in to feed: Blackbird, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Chaffinch, H/Sparrow, Reed Bunting, Dunnock, Robin, Starling, Magpie, C/Dove, W/Pigeon.
On the way home I something that I don't see very often around here, and that was 2 Squirrel's.

** Halling January List.**

Throughout January I saw 48 Species of Bird in Halling. They was as follows:
Blackcap; Blackbird; B/H/Gull; Black Tailed Godwit; Blue Tit; C/Crow; Chaffinch, C/Dove; Common Gull; Common Sandpiper; Cormorant; Curlew; Dunnock; Fieldfare; Goldcrest; Goldfinch; Great Black Backed Gull; Great Crested Grebe; Great Spotted Woodpecker; Great Tit; Greenfinch; Green Woodpecker; Grey Heron; Grey Wagtail; Herring Gull; House Sparrow; Kestrel; Lapwing; Little Egret; Long Tiled Tit; Magpie; Mallard; Meadow Pipit; Mistle Thrush; Moorhen; Pheasant; Pied Wagtail; Redshank; Redwing; Reed Bunting; Robin; Shelduck; Song Thrush; Sparrowhawk; Starling; Stock Dove; Teal; Wood Pigeon.