What's your birds weather like?

[SheffieldLass]

Today was very cold - it was a blackbirds' no legs one foot day! So fluffed up most of the time you couldn't see their feet, tummy touching the ground, and then only when they moved did you get a glimpse of feet, or rather one foot - much of the time they were hopping around on one foot. The first one I saw (female), I thought she'd hurt her foot, then noticed she swopped feet ... then noticed that all the other blackbirds were also hopping on one foot ... The robins were showing a little bit of ankle (or should that be back foot?), but again often had one leg tucked up snug in their down duvet.

[Rye]

The main thing this winter will remind me of is pied wagtails. I work in a town and I see a good handful of these fella's every day, struggling looking for the odd crumb on the floor and getting closer to humans than I have ever seen before. On the snow they stand on one leg for a second then swap to the other, I assume due to the sheer cold they can feel through their tiny legs.

This seals them as one of my favourite birds, great little characters.

[~T~]

Originally Posted by Rye

The main thing this winter will remind me of is pied wagtails. I work in a town and I see a good handful of these fella's every day, struggling looking for the odd crumb on the floor and getting closer to humans than I have ever seen before. On the snow they stand on one leg for a second then swap to the other, I assume due to the sheer cold they can feel through their tiny legs.

This seals them as one of my favourite birds, great little characters.

Me too. I hardly saw any over the year and now I see them running about in the busy town centre.

[twitchyt]

In my area the wagtails, pied, seem to do very well in the town centre, seen large flocks of them on the sloping aldi roof alternating between the shrubbery surrounding car park, also now on the b and m corrugated roof, simular shrubbery and tree,s nearby, at least some advantages to towns retail area,s, blackbirds also do well, no cats and dropped food.

[luckyoldme]

We've got a couple of Pied Wagtails who regularly visit our garden now. A male and a female. Never used to, but making the most of the seed I put out on the ground (when the Robin isn't chasing them off that is!)