Today it was -4 degrees when I left home to visit Coate Water, a country park just outside Swindon. The lake was pretty much frozen, with swans and ducks congregating at the edges and flocks of gulls standing on the ice in the centre. I noted a lesser black- blacked gull, Canada geese and tufted duck which were new for the year. I took a circuit of the lake, stopping to spend some time photographing birds at the feeding station in the woods. As at Stanton Park, earlier in the week, a jay was soon attracted by the peanuts I placed on a log; it would seem it was more used to human presence as it came straight down rather than waiting up in the trees. Up in the top of the trees I heard and saw a couple of parakeets, now apparently resident at Coate Water.
As I returned towards the car park, I saw a goldcrest in one of the firs, and at the edge of the lake, a grey wagtail flew in and made its way methodically along ahead of me.
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