Mike's Natural Musings: An Influx of Blackbirds at the Yard

Wednesday, 4 February 2015

An Influx of Blackbirds at the Yard

As the weather had been very cold for the last few days I knew that it was time to get down to the yard to top up the feeders and, as the weather was looking promising I enjoyed a couple of hours of photography in the hide. It was immediately noticeable that there were large numbers of blackbirds about; a minimum of ten. Presumably they are part of an influx from the continent, driven here by the current cold snap. They were incredibly gymnastic and well able to perch on the fat block holders to eat their fill. Goldfinches were plentiful as were dunnock doing their usual running around on the ground along with the chaffinches. There are at least three robins just about tolerating each other whilst great and blue tits are in and out regularly along with a couple of long tailed tits. It was good to see the greenfinches putting in an appearance again, but yet again there was no sign of the woodpeckers.

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