Garden Visitors

As if to provide a distraction from the ongoing horror that is Trump’s Presidency, we had a fleeting visit from a migrating flock of Fieldfares a few days ago. The flock had spotted the fruit still hanging on our small Japanese flowering crabapple, and descended en masse to strip the tree.

There must have been a hundred birds in our garden having a fine old time eating the fruit before moving on.

I also noticed a Waxwing that had joined in the fun.

Fruit on the ground was soon disposed of…

And once the tree was bare, the flock moved on…