Winter Redwings in Chorlton

Winter Redwings in Chorlton

The birding year started for us with a visit from a flock of around forty to fifty Redwing that used the Chestnut trees at the end of our street as a staging post before landing upon the Rowan tree opposite our house. Although the weather wasn’t that good, in between rain showers and when there was a little bit of sunshine, I managed to get some reasonably good photos.

They continues to feed from this tree, to the consternation of the local Mistle Thrush and the Blackbirds, for a few weeks with numbers reducing or increasing slightly. It did not take them long to strip the crown of the tree and they progressively worked their way down it.