Christine's walking & birds blog

Greger saw them from the kitchen window - hundreds of winter thrushes streaming up from the hillside where they were probably feeding on rowan berries; and I snapped a few pictures from the porch.

He offered to take me to the quarry road and, despite my warnings about the ruts and potholes being concealed by snow, we sailed up to the walkers' car park without any trouble. Some of the thrushes had landed on nearby trees; they appeared to be mostly fieldfare, with only one definite redwing spotted.

On each of the last three days we've driven down to Silverbridge for a walk, and large flocks of winter thrushes were seen along the road and in the forest. Despite the snow, a pair of stonechats flitted about in a lay-by above Loch Glascarnoch, and earlier, before the snow, two song thrushes and a mistle thrush were foraging on the dam.

The only raptors seen over the three days were two red kites and a buzzard.