Wagtails

[Maf]

They're back

Dunno where they go, but they are back

[Flummery]

Do they go away? Saw them nearly a month ago here - the greys, that is.

[smallblueplanet]

Ours don't go anywhere, we've had two feeding in the garden all winter - only they've gone now?!

[Maf]

I'm up a small mountain so maybe they go to warmer places in the winter?

[digthatchick]

Where I live in Worcester we had one of the largest roosting flocks of pied wagtails in the country. Every evening they would gather in the lime trees that lined the high street, people would come to watch, as they gathered in their hundreds. Then .... the council in their infinite wisdom, had the trees cut down ... as it encouraged "bird mess".

[burnie]

Where I live in Worcester we had one of the largest roosting flocks of pied wagtails in the country. Every evening they would gather in the lime trees that lined the high street, people would come to watch, as they gathered in their hundreds. Then .... the council in their infinite wisdom, had the trees cut down ... as it encouraged "bird mess".

If that was recent then the council could be open to prosecution
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On a more cheerfull note pieds winter in many large towns or industrial sites like power stations where it's warmer.Yellow/greys do migrate

[Eyren]

We have little flocks of pied wagtails on campus all year round - maybe the heat from all the computers keeps them warm!

I shall be keeping an eye out for the swallows, though. I watched them fuelling up last autumn, skimming over the lawns about a foot above the grass - better than the Red Arrows

[Sue]

We get wagtails right in the town centre and was amused to see a group of people at the bus stop with a gap in the queue and they were all looking down and there was a little wagtail, in the queue finishing up some crisp crumbs.
I wonder if its wagtails that also roost in our town centre. There seem to be two groups of birds, one def starlings who choose two of the trees in the precinct. Woe betide if you choose to sit on the seat below! But an amazing site at dusk.
Eyesight not good enough to pick out what the other birds are so might be wagtails.
Sue