A couple of raptors showed well

Clara Vale LNR - Virtually all the usual suspects plus Great-spotted Woodpecker, Sparrowhawk & Yellowhammer in main reserve.
Thornley Woodland Centre - 2 Sparrowhawk & Common Buzzard overhead, plus 2 Roe Deer, Red Kites  Jay,  Great-spotted Woodpecker, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Nuthatch and surprisingly not that many Grey Squirrel.

Sparrowhawk and Buzzard showed well today [Derek Bilton]

Jack in the pond

Shibdon Pond - 1 Jack Snipe and quite a passage of Redwings and Fieldfares this afternoon. Unfortunately for one Redwing  a rather large Sparrowhawk  caught it. 

Jack Snipe, another year tick

Yesterday in the snow

Shibdon Pond - 9 Shelduck, 3 Water Rail and a big female Sparrowhawk tormenting a bunch of Redwings
Derwenthaugh  - Dunlin, Redshank, Lapwing and a Goosander on the Derwent 
Birtley - 12 Waxwing
Clara Vale - 18 Goosander, 50 Mallard and 2 Goldeneye on the Tyne

Canada Geese arriving at Shibdon [George Simpson]

Another Shibdon gull

Lamesley-Team valley - 7 Waxwing by Horse's World

Shibdon Pond - 1 Mediterranean Gull.

Mediterranean Gull on Shibdon [Rob Stonehouse]

Clara Vale LNR  - Things pretty quiet at first due to a male Sparrowhawk sitting in the trees. Once he departed and took out a Blackbird - things picked up. Nothing out of the ordinary but highlights were: Willow Tit, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Stock Dove, Tree Creeper, Wren and this male Sparrowhawk.

[Derek Bilton]