Into February
It’s been a very varied but mostly wet and windy January / February, as I type this there’s a decent breeze blowing through and the wind and snow of the past few days drove a lot of birds to our feeders.
Good for me maybe not so great for them? I was seeing this female Blackbird fairly regularly but haven’t for a while now; she has a bad leg or foot so I hope she’s managed ok.
We have a lot of Corvids out here in farming country and a few Jackdaws visit regularly but they are very wary. I think they may be young birds brought here as youngsters last year?
The Blackbirds have been visiting in large numbers but they seem to have drifted away now, off to look for nesting sites?
There are always Starlings around 🙂
We also have our Mistle Thrush, which is great given that they are a very shy bird.
It now has peace to drop by for a snack, the Fieldfare has moved on 🙂
I don’t like that the Starlings arrive en-masse and try to eat everything, I do like a couple coming in and posing for the camera. 🙂
I loved the premise behind that shot, two Thrush spices discussing the departure of the Fieldfare?
Fabulous to be able to get closeup shots of the Mistle Thrush, we usually hear them from afar but don’t see them that often.
Did I say the Fieldfare had gone? It did disappear after that one but I loved the idea that it had chased other birds away but wasn’t quite sure about the Pheasant.
We have started seeing a small flock of Long-tailed Tits now and again, gorgeous wee birds, just begging to be photographed………….if only they’d sit still for more than a second.
I’ve been seeing them quite often out on my walks as well, which is great.
It was great to see the Siskins start to arrive ………….. in huge numbers!!!!
Ti have a couple of small dishes on my window sill and they depend quite a bit of time on them.
Starlings! They can get into everything!
You get an idea of the numbers of birds we get visiting. Can you ID many of them? Drop answers in a comment.
Of course, feeding birds draws the attention of others!
There’s no shortage of hunters in the area and plenty of Sparrowhawks, I saw a good few when the Fieldfares and Redwing were here in large flocks but they do drop by our feeders fairly regularly.
And so ended January, February carried on the weather variations, cold, wet and windy. Well, it is Winter!
See you again soon.
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