8th January 2012 New Forest Calm and warm

Goshawk 3 (2 males and a female in the air together)
Slate-coloured Junco 1 first-winter male ex.
Crossbill c.20
Siskin 1

 First-winter male Slate-coloured Junco in the New Forest

Now that Dorset, Hampshire and Kent have each all played host to three of these attractive Nearctic stowaways, perhaps a second in Sussex is not as fanciful as it once seemed... here's hoping!

Male Crossbill in the New Forest