Birding in the garden is a different experience now that some trees have dropped their leaves completely. But it also means that the redwings can see me.
The rowan tree they favour, is about 6 meters away from my usual standing point. Which means that they nervously check me out every few minutes in the 30 minutes I was there to see if it was safe to land in the tree.
At one point there was a group of more than 30 landing in a tree further away.
Then one flew to the rowan tree, saw me, returned to the group, and the whole group flew away over my head.
Otherwise there was a late Skylark flying over, some Yellowhammers, a Bullfinch and a group of 37 cormorants flying in a nice "v" shape. 14 species in all, with the almost constant Tsiiiii sound of the nervous redwings in my ears.
