It's been quite a while since we've had some sunshine, so I made the most of it as we are having 2-3 days of cold crisp weather. A walk around the coal-spoil area produced a good size flock of 32 Lesser Redpoll feeding on Larch and Birch seeds as well as on the ground/fallen seeds but not much else, but included Meadow Pipit, Bullfinch, Coal Tit, Long-tailed Tit and Mistle Thrush for a total of 17 species. The garden feeders highlights were a pair of Collared Dove and 10 Long-tailed Tit.
No insects or any other genus of fauna. So onto the plants - I managed to find an Austrian Pine in the planted trees which is a first for Blaencaerau. Surprisingly I also located 4 species of plant in flower in Dandelion, Herb Robert, Ox-eye Daisy ssp. and Gorse. A lot of Sallow, Alder and Birch catkins were starting to open up and release pollen, but the next few colder days will put an end to that
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