A few photographs from the past week. Along with the constant hordes of Blackbirds there has been the occasional visit from a Rook - sometimes digging in the snow
more often giving the fat balls a good bashing much to the enjoyment of the smaller birds which gather underneath to catch the spillage.
Surprisingly I have rarely seen the Goldfinches at the feeders. At one stage I was getting worried that they had succumed to the cold weather but every now and then a few appear to reassure me that they are still around.
The weeks of snow we suffered were early for this part of the country so I wonder whether we will get more in mid February, when it usually arrives around the time the schools have their half term break.
John, it's grim out there the finches brighten things up.
ReplyDeleteThat Rook is really going to town on those fat balls.
ReplyDeleteGood to hear your Goldies have returned. Mine have been absent a while now.
Strange you should mention the lack of Goldfinches John, I have noticed the same thing here, I wonder in my case if the Blackbirds, Collared Doves and Wood Pigeons have been putting them off. The larger birds usually stay away from the feeders where the smaller birds feed but of course this weather they are frantic and all over the place and the Blackbirds in particular are very aggressive at the moment.
ReplyDeleteOur snow is still hanging around and more forecast for tomorrow.
Lovely photos, I can't get decent ones at all at the moment.
It is cold, Adrian, if nothing else.
ReplyDeleteThey do Keith. Such large strong beaks, they soon demolish them. I wonder where the goldies were finding their food in the really bad snowy conditions.
ReplyDeleteIt does seem strange, Jan, that they were about the only species missing when so many birds were flocking to eat. Nothing else eats from the thistle seed feeders so there was always plenty of room and they are fairly bold birds not easily put off their food. They must have been eating somewhere.
ReplyDeleteIt is so dull today I needs the lights on at 10.30 in the morning. Pretty useless light for photographs at the moment. At least when it snowed there were breaks with bright sunlight.