Hi there
So pleased after seeing one Redwing today in my garden ..... the same bird had reappeared a couple more times
This bird loves the bits of apple on the ground. It flies away with whole chunks of apple and then comes back again for more apple {apple thief}
Here are some pictures - sorry for the quality as the picture was taken through glass and the flash kept going off.
The 3rd picture shows My friendly Mr Blackbird sizing up the competition on the bottom right of the picture
Regards
Kathy and Dave
Hello all.
No photo's I'm afraid. Just to report that we had whole flocks of Redwings, Fieldfares, Goldfinches and Sparrowhawks in our garden over the bad weather period. We have had them all before but never in such quantities. Our holly trees and other bushes were totally stripped of their berries. This is the very first time this has happened in the 30 years we have lived here. It was a joy to behold even though we were kept busy supplying foodstuffs to all the other species. We made our own puddings and were putting them out up to three times a day.
Happy birdwatching!!
J&D
Unknown said: We had a whole flock of redwings appear in our garden on christmas day. These continued to come through out the bad weather, we are still seeing the odd one, infact we had one appear during our garden bird watch. On the 10th January we saw our first field fare but didn't find out what it was till we watched snow watch on the BBC.
We had a whole flock of redwings appear in our garden on christmas day.
These continued to come through out the bad weather, we are still seeing the odd one, infact we had one appear during our garden bird watch.
On the 10th January we saw our first field fare but didn't find out what it was till we watched snow watch on the BBC.
I am so jealous. I have had numerous birds in my garden this year which have included the usual ones such as the tits and sparrows,robins and blackbirds etc. but I also had a woodpecker during the last days of summer. So when I woke up one morning over the Christmas period to not one but two new birds i had to get out my camera. After taking numerous photos I identified them as a fieldfare and a mistle thrush. The first time for me. The fieldfare turned up every day for a month while the snow was here feeding on the windfalls of apples I usually leave for the birds. The fieldfare often clashed with the thrush and chased away my resident blackbirds.
I live in East London, and watched a flock of Redwings systematically strip the Rowan tree in my street during the snowy weather. I'd never noticed them before, and thought it was a flock of thrushes at first, until I saw their armpits!