Any bramblings about?
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 7:03 pm
Has anybody seen bramblings this winter? We usually get at least twenty, some years up to 40 bramblings, but this year we have not seen one single one - the first time since we moved here more than 30 years ago.
There are plenty of other birds on the bird feeders, including about a dozen siskins, redpolls, bullfinches, lots of goldfinches, chaffinches, the occasional greenfinch, nuthatch, great spotted woodpecker and goldcrest, all the local tit families, house sparrows, starlings and treecreeper (for which I scrape bits of fat ball on the tree trunk). But, alas, no bramblings this year.
There are plenty of other birds on the bird feeders, including about a dozen siskins, redpolls, bullfinches, lots of goldfinches, chaffinches, the occasional greenfinch, nuthatch, great spotted woodpecker and goldcrest, all the local tit families, house sparrows, starlings and treecreeper (for which I scrape bits of fat ball on the tree trunk). But, alas, no bramblings this year.