What's flying near you?

P was quite delighted this morning when replenishing the bird tables, as usual he noticed the several robins eying him up waiting for him to give them breakfast, but in addition to the robins were a few long tailed tits for the first time ever.

Lots of little birds coming to the bird feeding station here. In terms of birds of prey, there are a few different kinds of kites here, and even a few golden eagles in the region. I've not been lucky enough to spot the eagles yet.

Lots of little birds coming to the bird feeding station here. In terms of birds of prey, there are a few different kinds of kites here, and even a few golden eagles in the region. I've not been lucky enough to spot the eagles yet.

We have had some birds probably from your neck of the woods. Fieldfare visit us every year. First they eat all the berries off the holly trees and then, particularly when very frosty, we see them with blackbirds and thrushes ( and squirrels unfortunately) eating windfall apples. They seem to like them partially rotted/fermented. The apples and berries have gone now and the fieldfares have moved on. They usually come as a large flock of more than 50 but never counted.