Wildlife -Winter 2008

[Anthony Darby]

Jamaicans get gold spacers between their teeth.

[mark smyth]

Not a great photo but it shows some of the 100s of fieldfares, Turdus pilaris,
http://www.birdguides.com/pictures/default.asp?v=1&f=192632&r=0&st=0&q=that were in Harvey's orchard during Monday's snow. They were joined by one cock pheasant and a green woodpecker, Picus viridis.

[art600]

I would have been very pleased to have taken the fieldfare photgraph shown in the link.

Did you forget your not so great photo 

[Michael J Campbell]

Mark, ALDI are offering a bird's eye view,Camera-in-a-nest-box complete system today for €49-99 with the camera and microphone already installed, colour by day black and white by night, and with 30m of cable.That's good value.

[Tony Willis]

a visitor to the fat in the garden this morning. It makes a change from the starlings

[Maggi Young]

We've never had a woodpecker in our garden 

Just imagine Aldi selling such things?!!! Extraordinary what they and Lidl come up with... seems a  very reasonable price for the chance to become your very own BBC Wildlife Unit!! 

[Carol Shaw]

We've never had a woodpecker in our garden 

Our woodpecker hasn't appeared for a week or more ow - hope he'll come back soon... Meanwhile the starlings have worked out how to feed of the fat balls and the nut feeders - guess they have a right to live too.

[mark smyth]

and mentioning woodpeckers - it's been know for a year or two that GS woodpeckers are breeding in Ireland. It's now official.

[Roma]

Saw some Redwings today, feeding with the Blackbirds on my massive muck heap.  It is quite warm so easy to dig when frosty and full of worms.  Tried to get some photos but didn't get close enough to get anything worth posting.  Got a bit closer later when pushing a barrow but had no camera with me.
On the way back to the house I spotted a flock of waxwings on the sycamore trees.  I dashed in for the camera.  When I approached most flew away but came back as I was standing at the roadside.  I wasn't sure at first why they were there but soon spotted they were drinking from the burn.  They flew down a few at a time, had a drink then flew back up to the tree to preen their feathers for a while before flying off.