This year, fieldfare appeared very early on rowan trees and began to eat rowan berries.
It seems to me that the rowan berries are not yet ripe. Although the summer was hot, there was little rain. Rowan berries have not yet had time to fill up with juice and become sweet and tasty. Even in color, they did not look bright red, they were orange.
I myself plucked a bunch of rowan berries from a branch and tasted it. The years were very sour and almost bitter. In addition, they knit their mouths.
Of course, fieldfare do not chew berries. They swallow them whole. Therefore, they may not taste the berries. But all the same, the blackbirds began to fly for berries very early.
Which is especially strange. They only sat on 2 trees. There were many rowan trees with bunches of berries around. But they preferred just these two trees.
Moreover, these were not individual birds. All birds preferred only these two trees, although they stood in an uncomfortable place, where people often passed under them.
But that was good too. Thrushes were less frightened when it was necessary to get closer to photograph them.
