When, just over a week ago, I wrote about the heavy local berry crop, a few fieldfares were already working on it and I predicted that they, and redwings, would clear the trees within weeks - but I was wrong.
It wasn't fieldfares and redwings that were swarming in our rowan tree when we came down to breakfast this morning but blackbirds, dozens of them. They aren't our local blackbirds as, in recent weeks, we've hardly seen any of them, so....
....they must be incomers, very likely from Scandinavia. Most, but not all, have black beaks and black feathers but some....
....are speckled brown and may be female or juvenile birds. Whatever they were, they had virtually stripped the rowan of its berries by mid-morning.
I wasn't entirely wrong about the fieldfares. Amongst the ravening blackbirds there were a few fieldfares, much shier and difficult to catch on camera.
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