Perhaps he's enjoyng the foreign "skirt" !

We have 8 roosting in and around our back garden at the moment, with sometimes as many as 12 hoping around early doors.

We have one resident who last year was fighting with everything in the garden, but this year seems quite happy with everything.....

Cheers

Interestingly though, Birdtrack.net results page for Blackbird hasn't shown many more than were presant last year although the peaks have been higher. This invasion could just be a local thing then.
In North Wales at the weekend I had 2000+ Redwings fly overhead in several massive flocks at dawn moving south so perhaps the majority have cleared off. This was the most i've ever seen together and I could even hear the wings flap as they went by!
Thanks. Henry.

I have 7 roost every day in the garden and a maximum of 12 in recently. I also counted 27 on a playing field while watching the Higher Green Barn Owl and have counted 14 at HGF recently.

Up until today I had only seen small numbers of Fieldfares locally and hardly any Redwings - then spotted some birds at lunch today - see Culcheth thread.

Mike

-- Edited by Mike Baron at 14:58, 2008-01-04

Yeah I have noticed a big increase in blackbird numbers, starting from the cold snap a couple of weeks ago really. 8 on my garden lawn recently and in some places they have been outnumbering the Redwings.
Thanks. Henerz.

Has anyone else noticed a mini invasion of Blackbirds? Whilst winter thrushes seem to be thin on the ground, Timperley seems to have been playing host to a large number of presumably migrant Blackbirds. My garden (which is not much bigger than a big back yard), has had a maximum count of 7, my sisters garden is playing host to larger than normal numbers, whilst before Christmas the small patch of open grass on Vale Road (about the size of a very small football pitch) had 17 birds with just the resident Mistle Thrushes for company. One of my garden birds is ringed, and I'm trying to photograph it to read the ring, but as yet no joy.