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Wintering blackbird on thuja sprig.

 

Blackbird

Musträstas

Turdus merula

   

Fieldfare

Hallrästas

Turdus pilaris

Half a metre of snow, and all trees and bushes eaten empty of berries, but when once you have stayed here, then something is needed to keep alive.

At feeding places it is a good idea to put some food on the ground too, for the birds that move there, or they must wait for the little that others spill down.
 

Blackbirds move on the ground by jumps; from time to time they stop to observe what goes on around, then the tail goes up and the bird goes on. In trees they sit quietly, the wings a little spread out.
 

Fieldfares too are seen quite often. The fieldfare gets its food like the blackbird.

 

Fieldfare.