March on fire

This month has started very much in the same vein as February, with plenty of grey and wet days, especially whenever I'm not working!  As a result, I've not been out birding but I did have a nice surprise this morning when I looked out my window to see a male Firecrest foraging in the tree opposite.  A new bird for my flat/balcony list closely followed by another one, a singing Dunnock, taking the total to 42 species in the six months I've been here.  I have, however, committed myself to surveying a 50-hectare section of the Sonian Forest as part of an effort to map all the breeding woodpeckers in the Brussels region, so that will keep me busy as soon as the weather allows me to go out and look for them.