A robin uses one bird feeder as a perch for its approach to the other feeder.
Thanks to reliable bird feeders, this male blackbird has kept well fed through the recent hard spell.
A member of the thrush family which flies south to Britain for the easier living in the winter.
Fieldfares normally come into urban areas only when conditions get harsh – here to feast on a rotting apple left out for birds. Understandably, the bird was more concerned with eating than with showing itself off at a good angle.
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Unidentified bracket
This bracket was growing on a fallen tree trunk, at an angle which showed that the fruiting bodies grew only after the tree had fallen.
The long neck is capable of the most complex contortions.
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Shrivelled rosehip
Even before the present big freeze, most of the berries left were as inedible as this rosehip.
Urban birds are going to be even more dependent than ever on food put out in feeders and on bird tables.