Goldcrest Song

Cloudy, Temperature below 5C.
This morning I saw a glimpse of what was either a Goldcrest or maybe less likely a Firecrest in my Lancing Garden TQ186044

It was smaller and more elongated than a wren, the light was poor and difficult to discern markings as it flitted in and out of the garden, briefly stopping in a tangle of climbing shrub on the shed, too quick to get a fix on the bins. The call was frequent and matched up to the audio track found on the RSPB website but I am not expert enough to differentiate between Gold and Firecrest calls from such short sample.


A Sparrowhawk zoomed over the garden at about head height here a couple of days before the 24th January when it was reported causing panic at a bird feeding station a few hundred yards north of here.