29 December 2016 - Hollingworth Lake

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Water Rail, Long-tailed Tits

Writing this some time later so can't recall much more now. Weather cold and outlying areas frozen. A party of Long-tailed Tits along Rakewood Road gave me the runaround while I tried to film them.  The video below is the best I could manage.

Rather more exciting was a Water Rail on the 'usual' stream; perfect conditions for it but it still caught me by surprise and I failed to get it on camera, fumbling with the tripod as it ran away upstream.  Maybe next time...