Local birding

 Taxi jobs today gave me a chance to visit two local venues.

Askham Bog was my first stop. A lot of robins

some of whom kept chasing other robins away from the food that I put on the fence posts.

a few great tits and blue tits, but no sign of coal tits or dunnocks. A family of long tailed tits in the tree tops but redpoll remains unticked on my year list. As I left the reserve a flock of redwings flew over and some landed on the tree tops.

Rawcliffe Lake was my second stop.

Parts of the lake were frozen as you can see from this picture

Mallards were eager to eat the seed that I put out for them while this goosander kept its distance.