Their main requirement is finding enough food to provide the energy to keep them warm. You can see at 0:58 the redwing is puffing out its feathers to trap air in them to act as a form of insulation. Some birds like the starling come into towns and cities at night to roost where the temperature is 3 or 4 degrees higher than the countryside, and other like the longtail tit huddle together in groups, and wrens will some time roost in nest boxes together sometimes in quite large numbers. In the end food is the most important factor as the days are short and the nights are so long.
Another great Winter video. Lovely experience to view the three different variety of thrushes simultaneously in the snow. Beautifully captured -- thank you for sharing, Maurice.
Wonderful video! You had such nice visitors that day. Fieldfares and Song Thrushes are quite common in Poland all year round, but I've never seen a Redwing during migration. I like your capture of this rare bird especially sitting like a fluffy colourful ball on the branch at the end of the video. Greetings.
Wonderful filming, Maurice. A great opportunity for you to film the Winter thrushes in picturesque conditions. We had a big influx of Redwings and Fieldfares into my local park recently. Most of the Fieldfares seem to have gone but there are lots of Redwings still around. I might see if I can attract them closer to my camera with some apples!
Absolutely brilliant Maurice. It is extrememly difficult even to spot redwing or fieldfare never mind film them at close quarters. I saw no fieldfare this winter and only a few redwing from a distance.
Thank you Tom for your generous comments. I was lucky to have the redwing and the fieldfare in the garden for a couple of days when the snow was on the ground, but they are back out in the countryside again now.
A flock of fieldfares and a redwing too during the snow with our resident brave blackbird doing his best to retain his territory. Resulted in a lot apples! Beautiful film.
It was a great day Maurice. Thankyou so beautifully put together. I had some feild fares in the trees at the bottom of my garden last week. What a delight.
Thank you Gary for your kind comments. I'm afraid that the voice-overs are added as I edit the video clips, I would love to do them live but have not perfected that side of things yet.
You are most welcome to the comment Maurice. Keep up the great work. Have you got any frog spawn in your pond yet?. First 'lot' was deposited in our revamped pond during Saturday night. Have you ever filmed the life cycle of frogs?.
