Usually I spend 1st Jan hungover and not doing much of significance. This time I took it easy last night and went birding with my family today. We set off for Marbury CP around 11ish, had a nice walk around. Rain was threatening but it stayed dry and it wasn't too cold (around 12 degrees C). We went into Northwich for lunch and then to Neumanns and Ashton's flashes, after 30 mins or so it started to rain and the wind got up but nothing too bad. All in all that has to be my best New Year's Day of my life so far, started my list with 35. I missed out on a Curlew and Buzzard seen by family members but with 35 in one day I can't be too upset about that :)
The highlight was probably seeing a Kingfisher flash of blue (not the one pictured as it was too rainy to take the camera today) flying across Budworth Mere and hearing some young kid say something like "I will remember this as a special day" to his mum. Me too!
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