Southfield's Farm, Coleshill.

Great morning to go to Southfield's Farm in Coleshill this morning with it being nice and frosty and with amazing clear blue skies and you won't hear me say this very often but wow, the highlights from today were truly amazing.

Easy place to start today, the amazing sight of at least three hundred Linnet, that might sound like an exaggeration but if anything it's an underestimation, they were everywhere feeding in field that has been winter seeded for the benefit of wintering birds by John who owns the farm, there were that many that when they flew up into nearby trees they actually blocked out the sun, it was easily one of the best sights I've ever seen and it was pleasure and privilege to have witnessed it, also in around the same area there were, Yellowhammer, Siskin, Corn Bunting and Reed Bunting and if that wasn't enough at one end of the field there were at least two hundred Redwing and the other end of the same field there were at least two hundred Fieldfare many of whom were having a bath in a large patch of water that was defrosting in the sunshine, again they are conservative estimates because they were present in huge numbers, as well as the birds you could obviously see, there were some further down in the bushes and trees and also ones nearer that you couldn't see properly but could either hear or see moving around, to see so many Linnet, Redwing and Fieldfare without having to move is something I will very rarely experience ever again, great to be in the right place at the right time, there was also a sizeable number of Song Thrush in among the Fieldfare flock.

It was also brilliant to see and hear so many House Sparrow especially around the farms outbuildings, great to see them in numbers more akin to days gone by.

Birds seen today were, c.300 Linnet, Yellowhammer, Siskin, Corn Bunting, Reed Bunting, House Sparrow, Dunnock, Wren, Robin, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, c.200 Redwing, c.200 Fieldfare, Song Thrush, Jay, Blackbird, Woodpigeon, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Pied Wagtail, Mute Swan and Moorhen.

It was also a pleasure to see and speak to John the owner of the farm who does great work to encourage the birds and wildlife to thrive in and around the farm especially at this time of the year, it was nice to give him an update of the birds seen today, you do great work sir, I hope you enjoy reading this report from today's visit to your wonderful farm.