Christine's walking & birds blog

From the kitchen window we saw hundreds of winter thrushes rise from the slopes of Ullapool Hill and swirl around as though something had disturbed them.


There are about 155 birds in the picture - mostly fieldfare, probably, with smaller numbers of redwing. It was late afternoon and the light was poor, with just a hint of drizzle in the air. When the berries up there are exhausted they will no doubt come down into the village - but our small rowan tree has already been stripped by blackbirds, a song thrush, and a couple of redwings.