Archive images - December 2016
	A long-tailed tit in Linslade Woods, 29 December 2016.
	A cormorant by the Grand Union Canal at Linslade (feathers in beak from preening), 22 December 2016.
	A pair of carrion crows getting amorous (neck scratching) near the Grand Union Canal at Linslade, 22 December 2016.
	Black-headed gulls only have a dark spot on their heads during the winter.  This one was flying over the River Ouzel at Linslade on 22 December 2016.
	A female green woodpecker in our garden.  The muddy beak is because she pokes it into the ground to lick up ants with her tremendously long tongue.  Alwins Field, 21 December 2016.
	Grey squirrel in our garden, Alwins Field, 21 December 2016.
	Greylag geese eating grass at Old Linslade, 20 December 2016.
	A moorhen perched on a branch and showing off its big, green feet at Old Linslade on 20 December 2016.
	A male sparrowhawk over the canal at Old Linslade.  He had frightened a flock of twenty redwing. 20 December 2016.
	A long-tailed field mouse on the rockery in our garden, Alwins Field, early evening, 19 December 2016.
	A male kingfisher trying his luck on the Grand Union Canal at Linslade, 11 December 2016.
	Nuthatches cling on to trees at unusual angles.  This one was searching for grubs in a rotting tree trunk near the River Ouzel at Corbetts Hill on 11 December 2016.
	A male house sparrow on the edge of Linslade Woods, near Knaves Hill, 9 December 2016.
	Robin, Alwins Field, 9 December 2016.
	A mute swan on the Grand Union Canal near the Globe Inn.  He was checking the boats for food handouts, 9 December 2016.
	A goldfinch eating the seeds from teasel heads, taken in the Ouzel Valley, 1 December 2016.

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