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Redwings have arrived!!

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    #32
    Whippersnapper
    Registered Users Posts: 598 ✭✭✭Whippersnapper


    A couple of these fellas hanging around in Dublin 4 over the last few days. I didn't know what they were. All I could see was the ruddy brown colour and what looked like a little eye-mask. They seem to match the pictures of the Redwing more than any other so I guess that's them!


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    #33
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    It seems that the large flocks were driven West by the unusually cold easterly air-mass recently and by a shortage of food. Mortality rates are extremely high by all accounts and birds have died along the wertern coast in their thousands. :(


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    #34
    Oliverdog
    Registered Users Posts: 968 ✭✭✭Oliverdog


    We counted 32 Redwings on our lawn in December and they are still around - but we have found many bodies on our walks. One Redwing was eating seed on the bird feeder but we found him dead in the garden this week. A real tragedy for this very welcome winter visitor.


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    #35
    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    The one's we had in our garden promptly disappeared without trace as soon as the snow had melted.


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    #36
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Alun wrote: »
    The one's we had in our garden promptly disappeared without trace as soon as the snow had melted.

    smae here:( wonder where they've gone


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