Nice to see our winter Thrushes back at the farm. Last years berry crop at the farm failed dramatically, with most of our berry trees going into a sort of limbo state where they looked like they had died and so didn't produce any berries. So by the autumn of 2020 there wasn't a single berry on the trees. The knock on effect of that was that the winter thrushes and our own resident thrushes didn't settle at the farm to take advantage of the bounty that usually awaits them.
Thankfully this year the trees sprang back into life with a good crop of berries on most of them that I thought had died. So with a strong northerly wind this week the Redwings and Fieldfares arrived on mass and I went looking for them with binoculars and camera in hand hoping to get some decent images.
redwing
With the sun pretty low behind the birds the photo's are a bit backlit but it was great just to see the birds and be happy with any sort of image of these Scandinavian winter visitors.
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I must say it's fantastic to have them back and I hope to see them regularly this autumn/winter feeding in the berry trees and in the fields at the farm.
It was a bit of a mystery about the berry trees but I suppose that's nature for you. Thanks for calling by and I'll catch you soon.
