birding doldrums

my life seems to be in the birding doldrums at the moment, with no appearance of the bird whose name shall not be typed (brambling) yet and the only occasional skein of geese flying over to tell me it's winter. however December is a month in which the garden birds take centre stage; my trees are taken up by blue tits and house sparrows, their numbers swollen from a summers successful breeding. with the robins pronouncing the nearness of Christmas (12 days!!!!!) i am going on a major nest box and feeder campaign. with 5 acres of land, which i will one day call my own, I'm planning to go a little O.T.T.