Saw lots today very near to our flat. They were very restless though and there didn't seem to be much about in the way of berries.
Berry crop has failed in Finland, reasnable chance of good southward movement this year - small numbers over the last week here in Lithuania and c.15 all day in my garden today, feeding on apples.
Superb name, Baphomet....you win the prize for the most original BF nickname yet! If I worship your head will I be suppressed by the Papacy?I agree a real treat. I moved up to Edinburgh from England 6 years ago and have seen them every winter since. I even had a flock of 14 outside my front window at the start of this year.
Superb name, Baphomet....you win the prize for the most original BF nickname yet! If I worship your head will I be suppressed by the Papacy?
I live just north of Boston. Three years ago we had a horrible caterpillar infestation which devoured the tree's leaves. The only good to come of it was flocks of Cedar Waxwings came to eat the caterpillars. I've live here 20 years and that was the only time I saw the waxwings in my yard.
Hoping for a Pine Grosbeak influx into Sweden over the next three weeks after the waxwing flocks mop up the last of the finnish berries!
They're outside the office window again (about 20 birds) and I have no camera. Very frustrating. On the other hand if I did have a camera I'd probably never get any work done.
Pine Grosbeaks would be nice. I think it was 3 winters ago I saw a mixed flock of Crossbills and Pine Grosbeaks from our flat.
Lucky you Cathy! I've seen crossbills in Scotland but I don't think they were Scottish Crossbills.