15th February

Eskrigg Nature Reserve, Lockerbie for first visit.  Nice walks, lake area heavily doctored by human hand and large supply of nuts and bird food around main hut.  Big flocks of chaffinches and siskins. Also all three tits, brambling, goldfinch, nuthatch, gs woodpecker.  Occasionally scattered by passing raptor (not seen).

Very little to see or hear away from this area.

A week ago there was also a female siskin in the garden, on nuts in the pear tree.  First and probably last this winter - few conifers in garden these days