Slow going

New birds are proving hard to come by at The Lodge at the moment, so I decided to walk into work this morning across a little-watched area of the reserve. Disappointingly, only three new birds added: Song Thrush, Linnet and Canada Goose. My two best birds of the morning have already been chalked up: Woodcock and Peregrine. We move slowly on to 63 species.

Still, if you don't swing the bat, you won't hit the ball...