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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DunnoKev" data-source="post: 1699344" data-attributes="member: 38448">We've both said practically the same thing about good management Steve, except you want mature growth left on yours. Me, I want to be behind a fully functioning bund when yet another of those 'once-in-a-lifetime' weather events comes along <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />Well I did chose that phrase 'try to talk' just in case you got that reaction... You've tried, good on you, wish more would. So a 'couple' won't manage sympathetically, at least you have others locally that do though. It's those that do their management right (with or without mature bushes!) deserve a greater public profile than the ones we like to sound off about.:t: Hopefully we'll have a few more people peering in them when it's all thawed out a bit more.From my experience of Reed Buntings they'll be back- those that survive to February will return in numbers when their own natural larder's almost bare.Spoke to one of the workers in the local orchards today, she's only picked up one dead Fieldfare during this snap which confused her a little. With big numbers present, she'd thought there'd be many more corpses by now (she usually finds a body or two to tell me about, well trained to check for rings!). I've bet that even though weather's improving she'll find more in the next few days because plenty of these birds will have passed their metabolic 'point of no return', where certain internal organs start an irreversable shutdown.On that happy note...</blockquote>

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