Bossy Fieldfare.....

[gness]

...but I'll sort him!

I put my last remaining apple on a skewer hammered into a fence thing in the middle of my garden....a fieldfare arrived and that apple was going to be his!
He fought off blackbirds, blue tits, a wren and a robin, sparrows and a thrush.....he was a feisty bird....when he could eat no more and needed a break he guarded the apple from a branch just above....and managed to eat the whole apple by dusk.....

Tomorrow I shall buy some more apples and put two on skewers far away from each other on either side of the garden just to see how he protects both....... :-)

[tonyav]

He fought of a Robin, that fieldfare is a proper tough guy.

[Patsy33]

Tough little thing! There seems to be a lot of them about lately. Fascinating watching them..

[gness]

At one point, Tony....he flew onto the side fence to chase off a blackbird......had I been quick enough I'd have hidden his apple before he got back to it.... :-)

[gness]

They are beautiful birds, Patsy.....one stripped all the berries in the front garden today......x

[tonyav]

Mmmmm two skewers = two fieldfares probably, gness.

[Gill1941]

I've had redwings around this week. Haven't seen any for years.

[gness]

Hmmm.....I've seen two, Tony.....so it's three skewered apples then!

I'm hoping for some redwing, Gill.......a fleeting glimpse last year but this weather may bring more.....x

[Tilly2]

There were two redwings walking around my garden this morning. Sadly, the blackbirds chased them away.

[shoota]

Skuas?
Inland?

[Tilly2]

Hi Shoota. Thought you were in France.
(Actually, you could be in France!)

[shoota]

I was in Lancashire which is not in France.
I am supposed to be in France.
But I got stuck in Lancashire.
Now I am in neither.

[sherrardk]

There were 40 or 50 field fare in the field next to my house earlier in the week - such pretty birds, don't think I've seen them before (only saw one lonely one today but this is still snow on the ground).

[Tilly2]

Where's Neither, Shoots?

Loads of Fieldfare in our local park. Lovely birds, darting about.