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  • cornellycornelly Posts: 970
    Couple of Mute Swans.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    and a partridge in a pear tree...
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    wild edges said:
    and a partridge in a pear tree...
     :D
     
    My 'new' thrush was in having some grub later in the morning


    once she figured how to get down off the bench....



    I then had a nice new visitor. They're around in the nearby fields, but not had one in the garden before. He was very happy, getting stuck into the apples and the food 







    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Thrush tastic. The fieldfares turn up here in the autumn and strip the rowan trees bare then disappear. I've never been able to tempt one onto the garden :/
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I used to live round the corner from where I am now, w'edges, and we used to get loads of thrushes. There was a big area of grass they colonised, in August especially, and they were regular visitors. This is the first one I've seen in this garden - been here nearly six years. She started visiting in late autumn, enjoying some of the sloes on the blackthorn hedge, and she's now ventured into the back garden for more food. Keeping my fingers crossed she'll come back with some pals  :)
    My sister was saying she hasn't seen any in her garden for years - she's over on the dark side, nearer Edinburgh. 
    I think the covering of snow helped bring the fieldfare in. Hope he pops back now and again too. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    My thrush only turns up when it snows, regular as clockwork. It was just down while I was making a coffee.


    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
    Lovely picture wild edges - I do like to see a thrush in our garden, they seem to be so scarce here now.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Lovely bullfinch too w.edges. We have them around here, but not had them in the garden.
    Don't think mine was in today - the men were here all day working on the wall, but the fieldfare was in just before they started, and a whole wad of blackies were lurking, hoping to get a bit of nosh. They love the apples and sultanas.  The ground's so frozen that they'll be needing plenty. Have to keep defrosting the pond for them too. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    Thrushes are scarce here too now, very sad, though i've heard one and it has visited a couple of times.
    But love the photos @Fairy and WE.
    Fairy yours looks like they are inspecting your hellebore.

    We occasionally get Fieldfare and Redwings seem to come together. But only when the weather is bad.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Rubytoo said:
    Thrushes are scarce here too now, very sad, though i've heard one and it has visited a couple of times.
    I've got a nice one that lives on the window sill in my office :)


    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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