Whilst my garden list is very short did add Redwing and Meadow Pipit on the Friday.
It seems everyone had visiting Fieldfares and Redwings to their gardens during the snow, and my garden was no exception!
Counted 24 different species in my little 8metre x 6metre back garden on the Friday, a record in the 25 years I’ve lived there!
Along with the Winter Thrushes (Both a first!) I had Blackcaps, Reed Buntings, a Goldcrest, a Chiffchaff and a fly through Snipe!
Pics of my snowy garden visitors on my blog;
http://carlbovisnaturephotography.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/the-beast-from-east-brings-fieldfares.html
Hmmm. I’ll post up a pic tomorrow. It is terrible and may not help much. It was very much like the images shown on the web. Definitely had a sandy colour about it. I thought it was a Robin until I looked closer.
Not a Black Redstart..?
Mike
As with Simons post, I have also had a record 14 goldfinches in the garden and a fly by woodcock at 0830. A garden(well seen from)first for me, closely followed by a second first, if you see what I mean, when 8 fieldfare dropped in and started eating the ivy berries
Female Redstart flitting about outside my house in Wells. Got an awful picture to prove it. New garden tick for me!
14 goldfinches on my feeders in Wellington this morning, double the previous biggest charm. More surprising, and presumably driven by the weather, was a low-flying woodcock over suburban gardens in broad daylight.