Hawfinch + at Lynford Arboretum.

Not a long trip today, Lynford is just over an hour away from home.We park up in the Arboretum car park at first light & after a quick look at the feeders we find nothing is awake yet so head down to the bridge. A small flock of Siskin followed by a single Greenfinch give us our first ticks of the day.
A look over the Paddocks gets us a few Hawfinch 5 in total seen but they might have been the same bird returning once or twice.
On the bridge many Coal Tit & Marsh Tit along with a few Nuthatch are seen for year ticks.
Walking down to the other bridge we all tick Mistle thrush in the Paddock & Jimmy gets a needed Song thrush tick. At the bridge we find more Coal,Marsh & a flock of Long-tailed Tits gives Brian a tick.
Another look at the feeders by the entrance as we head for the car gets us an unexpected tick as a single Yellow Hammer is seen feeding on the ground by the empty pool.We head off in search of more birds but after we get lucky when we spot a Goshawk very low over the trees when we pull off the road to watch it.The rest of the time we had left before heading home produces no more ticks so it's a fairly short day for us,but with 9 year ticks a very pleasant trip.
135 year ticks is not a bad start to the year.

Marsh Tit

One of the many Nuthatch