Today’s snow brought a new visitor to the garden, for this winter, the Pied Wagtail.
From the RSPB website:
“The pied wagtail, Motacilla alba, is a delightful small, long-tailed and rather sprightly black and white bird. When not standing and frantically wagging its tail up and down it can be seen dashing about over lawns or car parks in search of food.”
You can read more at the RSPB Website.
Has the snow brought you any new winter visitors?
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What a cute little visitor
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It is cute the way it bobs up and down.
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There are many birds in this garden but no Wagtail. Going to my Swedish place in a week and there these delightful birds are plentiful. Walking around and whipping their tails.
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Ha! We get no snow. Many birds migrate here from colder regions, but most are here throughout the year.
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This is a resident here, I don’t see it in the garden very often.
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Your yummy gourmet food brings ’em in. 🙂
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It’s a wildlife restaurant here, Eliza!
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What a treat! Great photos of it too. I don’t buy mealy worm as a rule. A trial bowl of them sat uneaten for ages last year. Time to try again perhaps
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The meal worms almost go too fast here, Robins, Blackbirds and Starlings enjoy them, the Starlings almost to much!
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We don’t get them n our garden, Brian; haven’t seen anything new recently here, but of course we keep looking!
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We occasionally see them in the garden during the summer.
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Watch your car wing mirrors. A while back, in a previous house, we had a pair of pied wagtails. They sat on the car doors and pecked at their reflections in the mirrors! Enough to scratch the bodywork. I ended up having to tie bags over the mirrors every time I left the car.
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One of our neighbours had that problem with Great Tits, Jessica. They use to cut the feet off old pairs of tights to use as covers.
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When I was teaching pied wagtails used to,prowl the playground looking for scraps left by the children.
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We have this little fellow here in Donegal too but I did not know his name. He is a cutie 🌼
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I am pleased you now know their name. There is also a grey wagtail, which has a yellow breast! It tends to live around streams and pools.
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They are lovely to watch…they are on the drive but rarely go into the garden. We have too many pigeons there. Great pictures Brian.
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Thanks Noelle. They are lovely with their bobing up and down.
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I’ve never seen a pied wagtail before. Neat name. This one looks a little ragged — maybe tired of winter? 😉
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They grey wagtail is even more attractive. I think we are all a little tired of winter Sally.
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Me too, Brian 🙂
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How wonderful – he looks like quite a darling little fellow! So good you were able to get some pictures while he was there. We’re getting the migrating birds through here now as they head north, and I saw an oriole this evening – the first I’ve seen since we moved here! 🙂 It gets very quiet here in the summer; birds wisely tend to go to milder climes for the hottest months…
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We only think of birds migrating to escape the cold but extreme heat can be a problem too.
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A little beauty Brian. We’ve certainly had a quite a number of birds visitors this winter but no new to the garden birds. I decided that spring has definitely arrived last week with the first appearance of the year of the ducks.
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Do the ducks nest anywhere near your garden Anna?
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