For the early part of my Lincolnshire birding career Nuthatches were only found in woods south of Lincoln for some bizarre reason then they suddenly broke out and headed north with the first records in N Lincs in 1995 and it was 2004 before I saw one on my patch at Barton but they probably bred the next year and have done so every year up until this year and so far there have been no records in the usual park which seems odd
Although I have 100's of images of birds like Avocets, Marsh Harriers, Hen Harriers, various wildfowl and seabirds I have always tended to fail to take images of commoner woodland birds so this year I have decided to try and improve on that poor record; yesterday in the low winter sun I went into the local park to check on the Nuthatches and managed a few images to start the year - a Treecreeper was also in the same tree but the sanitised ground had no beech mast and so no Bramblings --
