Mistle Thrush Return

To say I have to left the house due to revision, 2013 has got off to a flier, as today our garden was visited by our annual winter mistle thrush. It was not snowing for its arrival this year, nor did I have a camera ready to take its picture, but it was nice to see anyway. It came to the birdtable right in front of the window, a place it had been reluctant to come to in the past, and from there you can really get an appreciation of the size of it compared to our local blackbirds.