Weekend birding

We had a nice dump of snow on Friday night which has left Maridalen and the forests nice and white although in the city it has since melted so everything is grey, wet and frankly, not nice!

Even though the surroundings now look different the birds are pretty much the same and the exodus of thrushes is now more or less complete with the birds I see being, I believe, ones that will try to spend the winter and with there still being lots of berries in the urban areas then this may be possible for many of them. The Mistle Thrush remains but has stopped trying to defend his rowan trees and was today sharing them with Bullfinches, Blackbirds and Fieldfares in seeming harmony. It saves a lot of energy having to chase off all comers but means the berries will disappear much sooner so I doubt he will remain until January now.

Fieldfare (gråtrost)

the Mistle Thrush (duetrost)

a Blackbird (svarttrost)

and a late Redwing (rødvingetrost)

the Mistle again

a familiar silhouette

it is always a joy seeing Grozzas eating berries in the snow