Sunday, December 05, 2021
The village is full of winter thrushes. This is cheering as I decided to stay at home and get some domestic tasks done. Flocks of fieldfare and redwing occasionally fly up from the unseen places where they're feeding, streaming across the sky (and our garden) when disturbed or forming dark blobs at the top of bare trees.
Bramblings are again feeding on the yellow rowan berries out the back. Observing and snapping them isn't easy as there's a fairly high wall, a large generator, part of a shed, and several branches in the way. I counted eight individuals, and all eight are in the first picture (just visible when clicked up).
It's great to have these birds around as I'm a brambling fan - but I haven't yet seen any waxwings. Perhaps it's just as well - at this rate, there'll be very little left for them to eat!
// posted by Christine @ 5:32 AM 
