5th February 2012 - Hampstead Heath

A large unexpected (by us two anyway!) snowfall the night before meant we headed up to Hampstead Heath, along with most of London, to galavant in the snow.  The usual suspects were found here, along with the most posing Robin I have ever seen in my life!  He hopped up to a log about a foot away and then stood there, twisting and turning into all sorts of poses for the eager photographers. 

Annnnnnd...pose!

There were also some rather impressive snow sculptures, including this one:

We spotted 2 new birds for 2012 on this trip, the Jay and Mandarin.

1) Mute Swan

2) Coot

3) Mallard

4) Black-headed Gull

5) Great Crested Grebe

6) Moorhen

7) Great Tit

8) Blue Tit

9) Long-tailed Tit

10) Blackbird

11) Coal Tit

12) Magpie

13) Jay

14) Dunnock

15) Ring-necked Parakeet

16) Wren

17) Shoveler

18) Mandarin

19) Carrion Crow

20) Robin

My year list for 2012 comes to 90.