SOME WINTER VISITORS

I'm very lucky that at the farm we do get both Winter Thrushes and the little Winter Finch the Brambling.

The berry crop at the farm hasn't been great again this year so locating and getting pictures of the Fieldfare and Redwing was both difficult and sometimes very frustrating. The efforts below were the best I could manage.

fieldfare

redwing

The Brambling on the other hand were coming into my bird feeders so I just had to sit at the bedroom window and wait patiently, here are some pictures of both the male and female.

female brambling

and another

And some pics of the male.

male brambling 

and another

Here's a short video of a male foraging

Here are a couple of pic's of some of the birds that also came into the feeders with the Bramblings.

robin

jay

great spotted woodpecker (female

great spotted woodpecker (male)

male chaffinch

Nice to have the Winter visitors back even though them darn Winter Thrushes are so skittish. I am hoping to get some better images of them before they go back up to Scandinavia for the breeding season but I'll have to get lucky.