Staines for a LIFER!

A trip to Staines reservoir produced yet another lifer for the year (8 this year!) - an AMERICAN HORNED LARK. This species has been split from the shorelark - a bird I saw back in January 2012.
Note on the picture (if you can!) the whiter eye stripe on the horned lark - which is yellow on the shorelark.
Quite a trek along the concourse to see the bird.
Maybe another  victim of the storms from America.
Lifer #306

American Horned Lark at Staines

Granville Raven

As I stepped out of the front door, I heard the unmistakable called of a RAVEN. Looking up I saw it fly right over the house - the feathers glinting in the marvelous clear sky.
Granville Garden lifer! # 41
Also a pair of REDWING in the neighbour's tree , winter is here!