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Message: <blockquote data-quote="deborah4" data-source="post: 1657886" data-attributes="member: 29880">Not sure where this is Chris but I've just come back from spending a couple of days in rural Sussex.  Unbelievable amount of Redwings over the two days in just a few square miles.  I gave up counting after half an hour.  Over the two days, I saw figures well into the many many thousands.  They were absolutely everywhere feeding on holly bushes and there last thing at night and first thing in the morning for the whole two days until I left late this afternoon.  The sky was constantly alive with them flying over and I each time I entered woods and passed a holly bush, between 5 and 10 flew out each time!!!  I've never seen this many even when catching the main winter fall on Orkney several years ago - noisy things too :eek!:(Good job the bulk of Waxwings have done the sensible thing and stayed put for the time being! Won't be much left after this lot - hope there's enough food left for our resident winter berry eaters too)</blockquote>