So far this year I haven't added any new species to my "life list." So what, you might say. It's only January and it's the middle of winter. Fair point.
My mum, however, has already secured two life ticks this year.
Her first was a brambling. She saw a bird visiting her garden that looked somewhere "between a bullfinch and a chaffinch." A bit of work over the phone with the Collins Bird guide ID'd it as a male brambling in its winter plumage.
Her second sighting was even better - a kingfisher which she saw flying across her local lake.
So yes, I'm jealous. I wonder what will my first life tick of 2013 will be?
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