Christmas day, boxing day and todays garden sightings

Not alot of birds around as there was lots of rain causing the rivers to flood again. Merry Christmas to everyone and there have been some strange sighs of spring arriving early. In the apple tree (which hasn't got any apples in) a male Great tit was calling several times as well as in the 1st berry bush a Chaffinch male has been singing. Also one of the male blackbirds have been singing a bit in the apple tree but every morning a Robin has been singing from the berry bush. The male dunnock has even been performing his courtship display towards the female and at the Cotswold water park mallard ducks have even been seen mating. Its not only birds which have been showing signs but one of our bushes have started getting new buds and amazingly 3 daffodil bulbs have started shooting out the ground. So when will we see the first Swallow arrive back in the new year?
 
Birds sighted have been.

Garden

• 1 adult male blackbird (27th)

Trees

• 40+ starlings
• 40+ jackdaws
• 3 magpies
• 2 great tits
• A few blue tits
• 40+ house sparrows
• The dunnock pair
• Wood pigeons
• 3 Blackbirds- 2 ad males and an ad female
• 20+ gold finches
• Quite a few chaffinches
• 2 collard doves

Flying over

• 1 great black backed gull
• 40+ black headed gulls in flocks with the common gulls which have been moving from the flooded fields
• Corvids
• A few herring gulls
• 1 Great spotted woodpecker (27th)
• 1 kestrel (27th)
• 5+ Fieldfare
• 20+ Redwing

House behind us

• 40+ starlings
• 1 collard dove
• The gulls
• 30+ redwing
• A few house sparrows
• Corvids

Flooded fields

• Lots of gulls- herring, common, black headed, great black backed and herring but no yellow legged or Mediterranean
• 1 Littel egret