The trees have dropped their leaves and look bare but this just makes the birds easier to see. We have our resident birds all year round like blackbirds, blue tits and greater spotted woodpecker. If you keep a closer eye out though you will see winter visitors escaping the extremes near the arctic circle, like fieldfare that flock in large numbers and waxwings feeding on the red hawthorn berries along hedgerows. In the riverside fields you'll see black headed gulls, without their distinctive black head they only have during breading season, pat on the ground to bring worms to the surface.