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Atrocious snow blizzards here today and -4 degrees 🥶. I didn't even think about trying to move the car out of the drive. There was more than enough snow to make a ⛄ if I had felt like it – I didn't!
Highlight of the day was a new garden tick! I had just filled up all the feeders, broke some of the ice on the drinking pools with a hammer, topped up with boiling water and come back indoors, when a stunning Fieldfare landed in the front garden! At that moment I realised the one food I had not put out was an apple, so cut one of my organic apples in half and threw it out in the front garden. The Fieldfare immediately returned and went straight to the apple! A male Blackbird was not happy about this far too colourful visitor and continually harrassed the Fieldfare over half an apple, even though there was a second half a few yards away that it could have feasted on too. The Fieldfare and Blackbird were well matched, neither would give up the fight – they battled until darkness fell.
Lots of hungry Starlings, House Sparrows, a Robin, Collared Doves and just before dusk I had 6 Blackbirds, which is a record for my garden too. I sat by the window fascinated by the Fieldfare. As it got dark all the birds left the garden apart from the Blackbirds, one Robin and the Fieldfare. Eventually they all left too, apart from the Fieldfare who had finished the first half of the apple and now undisturbed was able to demolish the second half of the apple – he was there until at least 4.30pm and it had been dark for ages at this point. The street light is on the corner by my house, so allows me to watch birds feeding late. I hope the apple helps the Fieldfare survive the brutally cold night ahead.
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