Signs of Winter on the local patch

Redwing

Deceptively quiet afternoon stroll round the local patch (almost silent if you don't count the jay feeding at the top of one of the lime trees in the park).  Furtive rustlings deep in the bushes suggested where one of the mixed tit flocks was foraging but it was difficult to see most of the birds. Much more obvious were the finches — twenty two goldfinches, seven greenfinches and a couple of chaffinches — and the thrushes: thirty four blackbirds, a song thrush, the usual pair of mistle thrushes and the first two redwings of Winter.

Barton Clough