Some ‘birdscaping’ from yesterday…
Golden Week 2024 #8
Tag: Dusky Thrush
Spring…
Lots of these in the big park today; they are always abundant passage migrants in spring. I also saw 5 very early Barn Swallows on the local river…
The holdout
Only 1 crossbill seen since last Saturday; this male holding out in the tiny park.
Single Dusky Thrushes are scattered around everywhere now.
Spring
The first day of spring 2024 but the birds near my apartment this morning hadn’t changed much although there seem to be far fewer of them…
Quiet in the bigger park
Not much action in the other, bigger park…
Up the road
A couple of hundred metres up the road there is another park with a tame Dusky Thrush…
More Friday xbills
I’ve really indulged myself with these this winter.
A few Dusky Thrush were around too…
Duskys
The Naumann’s Thrush from a couple of weeks ago seems to have moved on but the common Dusky Thrushes remain in the big park…
Something else to look at when the crossbill was busy…
Some winter passerines still around
I saw a nice flock of redpolls yesterday but couldn’t get close enough for photos…
But other passerines remain.
I really think they’ve gone
I ranged far and wide today but there really weren’t many birds around. Has the amazing local birding winter of 2023/4 started fizzling out?
I did see a flock of Brambling and the grey-headed Woodpecker was still present (no photos of either) but no crossbills. The only passerine I photographed was the above Dusky Thrush. Near a crematorium. It was pretty lifeless today fittingly.
f 5/6
I took the 400 f5/6L this morning hoping to get better crossbill shots (as they were so tame yesterday) but the crossbills didn’t pose for any photos…
A quiet Friday afternoon
After a mild few days there was a dumping of snow last night…
Still quite a lot of interesting birds in town. Not everything was as tame as the above Dusky Thrush though.
