Well awoke
this morning with a dusting of snow on the ground, hardly anything really and
less that was forecasted on Saturday night.
Last week I was talking to someone
at Rainham Marsh about how many Lesser Redpolls were visiting the garden
feeders and how they had replaced the Goldfinches feeding on the Niger seed. The
person said, “wait until the weather
turns colder with some frost, ice or snow and the Goldfinches will return” he
had something similar happened in his garden last year.
At about
9:00 this morning and having breakfast
and watching the Lesser Redpolls (6) feeding, suddenly without warning a party
of 7 Long - tailed tits arrived along with 2 Blue tits, 2 Great tits and took
over the feeders ( Peanuts and Niger seeds) The Lesser Redpolls left the
feeders and just looked on. In a small space of time, approx 10mins they all
left, then 4 Goldfinches arrived to continue where the L. Redpolls left off.
The Goldfinch situation was part right!
Keeping an
eye open tomorrow morning.
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