You Can..

[carrust]

...tell its autumn when the redwings & fieldfares are back. Some have arrived in my patch this week.

[Milvus]

Lucky you. I haven't seen a Fieldfare in ages

[sunny-dave]

If you also have waxwings then you're off my Christmas Card list already ...

I only tend to get Redwings when the weather really clamps down in January & they come for the cotoneaster berries and crab apples.

[Svejk]

'In my patch'? Are you being rude again, Crusty. ;)

[carrust]

No waxwings yet SD. Got them last year in my front garden feeding on some contoneaster berries.....I lost count @ 85:-)

[Baldric]

It's our first Autumn at this address, (N/Kent Coast)
don't know what to expect yet,
so the next few weeks could be interesting

[Robinia]

I'll keep a look out...the past two years we've had big flocks dropping in to feast on berries in our gardens...lovely.

[carrust]

Sweaty. I can do nowt right for doing wrong on Ab at the moment....I'd better not mention men dressed as women;-)

[Svejk]

Next time say you're lampooning old fashioned stereotypes, crusty. Its like a 'get of jail free' card.
Sorry for interrupting your twit talk.

[Svejk]

On about birds. When I was a kid, by far, the commonest bird around here was a house-sparrow. I never see them now but I see loads of magpies which weren't about then. Is that the same everywhere? I'm in S Wales.

[carrust]

I haven't seen a house sparrow in my garden for months, same goes for starlings:-(

[Milvus]

I have starlings, about 30 of them and in the evening they do their best at a murmuration but it's more like a red arrows fly past than those huge displays of a million birds :(

[FredPuli43]

Bewick's swans should be arriving on my patch (Cambridgeshire) soon, but redwings ? Don't think I have ever seen one. Do they specialise in the North?

[carrust]

They're a very common winter migrant fred. I've just been outside & heard some contact calls from them.

[Chaffinch]

ABSOLUTELY nothing unusual or migratory in Hampshire ( well in my garden and surrounding area), but there is a mass of berries and fruit at the moment, perhaps the best in years, .............so feral eating!

[sandyRoe]

I've only ever seen one Fieldfare. It spent a snowy week in my garden chasing the blackbirds and eating the food I'd put out for them