Wednesday 24th December  

A pleasant day with some sunshine, if with a coldish E wind, weather that seems set to stay for the next few days.

No bird records were received, so I will just wish all our contributors and readers a very happy Christmas, thanking you very much for your records and interest, leaving you with an appropriate photograph by Gordon Langsbury. As this may apparently turn out to be the warmest year in the UK since records began, one wonders how long it will be before such a photograph will become impossible to repeat.