More December images

Hooded Crane Grus monacha being sent off by Hooded Crane x Common Crane hybrid

Korean Water Deer a'leaping (Hydropotes inermis)

Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus

Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla

Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagopus

Saunders's Gull Chroicocephalus saundersi

  At the crack of dawn tomorrow I'm off to the bay to search for partridges, turtle doves, French hens, calling birds, geese a'laying, swans a'swimming, and perhaps a Western Water Rail, if I've been a very good boy.