Just thought I'd share with you a couple of the pictures from my garden of the birds in the snow. Its been pretty cold here, nothing compared to some other places I've seen though. There are a lot of birds on the garden rummaging through anyway despite the weather.


Song thrush - this has become a resident bird in our garden. He/she is always around, but only ever one.


Collared Dove - we've seen an influx of these this winter, counts up to 15 I think at once, previously only had 2. Obviously they are doing as well as the BTO says they are.

Feel free to post any cold weather birds you have taken here too

We had a robin - bossy so and so - lots of sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds, great tits, blue tits and jackdaws on our front wall. I feed the bird there in the very snowy weather! I will post some naff pictures taken through our front window when i have sorted them!

I was delighted to see that a pair of Redwings had taken up temporary residence in the garden - and even more delighted to see a pair of Field Fares a couple of days ago. The Field Fares were feeding on rosehips as all the cotoneaster berries and Haws have been munched by the Blackbirds.

Yes we also saw some redwings in the garden at my familys house at christmas, havent seen any for a long time. But apparently redwings have increased in garden occurence 283% and the fieldfare by 267%

Obviously doing very well or the berry crops elsewhere werent great.

Yes we also saw some redwings in the garden at my familys house at christmas, havent seen any for a long time. But apparently redwings have increased in garden occurence 283% and the fieldfare by 267%

Obviously doing very well or the berry crops elsewhere werent great.

I was watching the wonderful SNOWWATCH last week too (where they also mentioned those stats). When I was a kid I lived in Essex and we had a huge garden. We had flocks of both these species visit every winter. We have had them in our Twickenham garden in the past.

I think they like it here because there is a school playing field immediately behind our garden and it is surrounded by other gardens full of berry bearing trees and bushes.

I have had a plethora of very hungry birds at my window over this last little cold spell but I think the most entertaining of them all would have to be the long tail tits, I counted a group of eight in total all trying to squeeze on my windowsill at once....one little chap had lost his tail feathers though so I am not sure what had happened to him, I wouldn't be at all surprised if he probably left them stuck in the ice somewhere.

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wow this cold whether birds really look very good i love this kind of wild pics. you posted very good pictures. thanks for this sir.



thanks!!


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