Thursday 5 January 2023

Winter Thrushes

During the recent spell of wet weather, the fields local to me have become pretty waterlogged. Moorhens have started to venture off their ponds and are wandering around these fields in search of food, as are the Grey Herons. At the weekend it was the turn of our winter thrushes to have a look and see what the wet ground had to offer, There muse have been rich pickings because there were hundreds of Redwings and a very good number of Fieldfares too. Add to that our local and migrant Blackbirds and Song Thrushes, it was quite a sight.

Clearly they have now finished off the crop of berries that they had been feasting on in recent weeks, and been forced to the ground. There must have been something good there as they were there all day, bar the odd flushing from trespassing dog walkers.

Redwing




More distant and nervous Fieldfares.




22 comments:

  1. The thrush looks so cute and petite

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  2. I always envy you these birds, Adam. They are very appealing and reliable every winter.

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  3. It's good you are getting out and seeing stuff Adam. I have not seen Redwings and Fieldfares for weeks now because around here the berry crop was already poor and now there's none left. I usually start seeing Fieldfares coming back in mid Feb so I'm hoping to catch up then. Keep up the good work. The weather will improve eventually.

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  4. Hello,
    Beautiful captures of the Redwings and Fieldfare. Thank you for linking up and sharing your post. Take care, have a great weekend! PS, thank you for leaving me a comment.

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  5. These are beautiful captures, Adam.

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  6. These are wonderful. We don't have these redwings in my area of the USA.

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  7. Nice pics of the thrushes and redwings. Very distinctive eye markings.

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  8. Hello and welcome to FFO. These are wonderful photos. Thank you for sharing with is. Please remember to link back to my blog.

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  9. Your Redwings are so different from ours.

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  10. Oh it grieves me to watch the birds and animals struggle to survive in the cold ... I don't know how they do it, but you have to admire their pluck. Love your pictures ... sweet birds ...

    Andrea @ From the Sol

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  11. Happy New Year, Adam. I wish you a lot of nice captures! 🐦

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  12. I feel so inadequate. The only birds I can identify are Am. robins, cardinals, and blue jays. I am glad you told us what we are looking at!

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  13. I have never seen this bird before. Beautiful photos!

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  14. In my neck of the woods so distant from yours there are birds pecking the ground finding morsels of food my human eyes cannot see. :)

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  15. ...the reddish-brown on the wings is a lovely touch.

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  16. Beautiful captures of the birds, well done!

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  17. Awesome photos of our 'feathered friends'

    Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  18. Interesting how the birds respond to local weather conditions and food supply. Great photographs!

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  19. Love the amazing captures of the birds!

    Happy Wednesday!

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  20. Nice to see birds. Over here they cut down so much forest that there are hardly any birds to see. Our fields are as wet as your but I don´t see any birds on them :(

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  21. the birds look so cute....
    great capture

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