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First Bramblings of the year (1 Viewer)

MTem

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Had my first Bramblings on the feeders in the garden for this year - 2 males and a female with the usual Chaffinch 'hosts'. On the Surrey/Sussex border near Gatwick.

Very early - I don't usually see any until late Jan/Feb. Linked to the Hawfinch influx??

Mick
 
Saw a brambling at Lindisfarne on October 22nd, presumably newly-arrived - I've seen coastal bramblings in October before. However, we never see them in my partner's central Northumberland garden before Christmas usually, unless the weather is exceptionally severe, and in recent years they haven't turned up before late February - March.
I think as others have said elsewhere, it is usually down to food availability in the countryside, so getting them on feeders this early does seem a little unusual.
 
Update on garden bramblings...my partner just sent me a photo of a brambling eating sunflower kernels, our earliest ever observation.
 
As the title doesn't say UK ;) I thought it a good place to mention that I had a great view of a cracking male Brambling this morning near Cabranosa, Sagres, Portugal. Its the first time I've seen one anything like well since about 1980! They are a very scarce passage bird here and usually only the odd one detected by call in flocks of migrating Chaffinches - and only some years. To get one on the ground feeding was a treat indeed.
 
They are a very scarce passage bird here and usually only the odd one detected by call in flocks of migrating Chaffinches - and only some years. To get one on the ground feeding was a treat indeed.

Brambling has the same status over here but this year there's been an influx. Even small flocks have been recorded over the past few weeks.
 
Everything seems to be slightly earlier this year that's the beauty of birds and never go by the books.
 
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