BIRDING QUESTION We ask this month’s contributors: What’s your favourite winter bird?

It’s an unusual one – Water Pipit. I love the fact that it migrates the ‘wrong’ way in autumn

Ruth Miller:

Snow Bunting – a few show up on our North Wales coastline each winter. They are always a delight to see

Ian Parsons:

My favourite winter bird has to be a Merlin dashing across the estuary marshes, the perfect mini-hunting machine

Dominic Couzens: David Lindo:

It’s got to be the Iceland Gull! I barely ever see them down south but they are gorgeous!