The Redwing on the Rowan

I had great amusement on Friday watching a flock of redwing come into our garden and completely decimate the rowan tree. Every berry was gone! A lot dropped on the ground, right enough, but not one berry left on the tree. Hard to imagine when you see how many there are in this photo!

[Maggiemae]

We have flowers on our rowan tree. No colour but future promise of those lovely red berries

[Denise Wood]

FAVtastic :)

[Wylie]

lucky you got your Xmas photo before they demolished the berries! gorgeous.

[Kitty Hawke]

haha.....little piggies !

[Bep]

Wonderful capture!

[Babs]

Wow the birds have had a feast here haven't they.

[Merrelyn]

Great capture.

[Lynne]

Beautiful with all the pops of red against the golden background.

[PhotoCrazy]

Wonderful pic!

[Margaret Brown]

Hunger is a terrible thing!! Lovely capture

[Pat Knowles]

You caught the Redwing with the berry in its mouth…..made a lovely capture even more special. Our cotoneaster…well next doors still has all the red berries on it….I’m sure rowan berries are much more tasty!

[Poppo Livy]

That's an awful lot of berries that were picked off. I've never heard of a rowan tree

[Kathy]

Nice capture.

[Tunia McClure]

Good timing on catching him with the berry in his mouth.

[Judith Johnson]

Oh lovely, what a sweet capture, and a berry too!

[Valerie Chesney]

Gorgeous shot....The Redwings thought you grew this lovely berry tree Just For Them...

[Islandgirl]

What a great capture!

[Shutterbug]

Good thing you caught the photo when you did. I love how the bird is framed by the branches.

[Issi Bannerman]

@terryliv No? Otherwise known as Mountain Ash. They're a native tree in much of Europe. They used to be planted at the entrances to houses in Scotland to keep the witches out!

[Issi Bannerman]

@happypat Yes, but I did have to take about 70 photos to get a few good ones! :-)

[Sarah Bremner]

Wonderful colours! I'm guessing friends of your birds have been here recently as not a berry in sight on our rowan tree .... we've been away a lot so hadn't noticed the change until now!

[haskar]

A wonderful capture.