I saw a mistle thrush near my house near Amersham the other day, the first time I have ever positively identified a mistle thrush as opposed to a song thrush in SE England. I'm not confident on appearance alone, I need to hear them. I only very occasionally see song/mistle thrushes in my garden, but they have been about of late, and recalling they looked on the large side, I'm now suspecting that they are all mistle thrushes, not merely fluffed up for the cold. Maybe they've flown in from the continent to escape the cold, like other kinds of thrush do.

Saw some little egrets down in the Chess Valley on Sunday, so they haven't been scared off by the weather.