Half tweet

A few thrush sized birds in the hawthorn out front this morning, but they would not stay in view for long enough to be properly inspected. Long pointed beaks, but no flashes of red. Nevertheless, I think that they were probably redwings, even though they usually come late in the old year rather than early in the New Year. A half-tweet.

Searching the blog for 'redwing' produces nothing more recent that reference 1. Which seemed a bit odd, but then I worked out that blog search is a bit literal and I tried for 'redwings', which turned up reference 2, which is not an actual sighting, just a mention.

To think that they used to be regular and tweeted visitors.

Image above turned up by Bing. My birds were not as fat as this one.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/11/human-forest.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/10/near-house-bound.html.