Boxing day walk and the overnight frost is still hanging about late in the morning, it is quite noticeable how many birds are feeding on the berries still on the trees and shrubs in the hedgerows but these are starting to get exhausted as the weather is getting colder and the birds are needing to eat more to keep warm and survive the night.

Now the birds are moving into the gardens and starting to strip the berries on our shrubs, even under our lounge window the Cotoneaster is being stripped, we have had a blackbird and blue tit looking in on us as we carry on with our festivities and they eat the berries.

When I walked the dog this morning the visiting winter thrushes and now moving into the urban areas from the open countryside, do they know the weather is getting colder and we are in for a bad spell?.

Redwing looking for food in gardens

Redwing can be identified by the cream coloured eye stripe and rust coloured area under the wing from our native Song thrush.