A new year begins

Well hoping you all had a good xmas and start of the new year. The farm has been quite for so long now that i'm starting to think the wind has got stuck in a westerly direction!!! We are so dependent on extreme weather to get any sort of movement across the skies.
   I have decided that birding is done on three planes of view.. 1) ground level, the one i struggle with, not sure why but so hard to look down lol, 2) birds drifting across the farm, like the thousands of gulls 3) the exciting zone, this is where i like to look, generally about three pylons high and above. Why am i telling you this? simple my new year resolution is to try and look at the ground more, not sure about looking at the gulls though as after years of staring at them they still all look the bloody same!!!
   
  My list is on 44 so far for the year which isnt great. Hoping it gets to 150 by december, we shall see..