The day before yesterday, it was very cold outside, the thermometer showed below twenty degrees below zero, but I had to take my son to school and didn’t have to choose.
As we walked along the icy street, I saw a flock of rather large birds, their silhouettes in the sky, which flapped their wings in a very strange way, these were very frequent movements of the wings, which were not like what they show me daily, flocks of black rooks.
The thought flashed through my head that these were thrushes, but I threw it aside due to the fact that rooks, in winter, leave our territories and go to warm climes for wintering.
When I walked back home, I became convinced that not everything is as simple as we think.
On one tree sat a flock of Fieldfare thrushes (Turdus pilaris), who cheerfully sang their songs while talking to each other.
I took a series of photographs, excellent photographs and was very pleased with the result, but after a few hundred meters I saw frozen bunches of grapes and decided to photograph them.
This was a fatal mistake my camera told me that still picture recording was not completed properly and the files need to be restored. I had to agree and push the button... at this point, I can tell why the title of this post says this is my second attempt at blackbird hunting.
I came back, but the thrushes flew away.
The next morning, I went along the same street and, on the tops of huge hazel trees, I saw the fugitives.
Unfortunately, this morning, the sky was gray, covered with a gray haze poor lighting and a distance of about twenty meters did not contribute to the photo session, but I tried to take another series of photographs and show you the birds that violate the canons.
Interestingly, this year there is a very poor harvest of mountain ash and hawthorn, which can serve as food for thrushes, but apparently there, in the "warm regions" the situation is even worse.
Thrushes are very cautious birds and the fact that the distance to them was greater gave me a chance to take more pictures.
This flock has about a hundred heads, this is an approximate figure, this is what I saw.
It remains only to guess what the birds that risked to spend the winter eat.
I hope that in the future, I will be able to communicate with these birds closer.
Photos taken with a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX300 camera
I edited a photo in the program PhotoDirector, which I also installed on my smartphone.
Author @barski
Ukraine
For my publications, I do not use stock photographs, it is fundamentally important for me to use photographs that I have made with my own hands for publication and I can name them - authorial work.