Winter migrants

About a million Redwings migrate to the UK and Ireland in the winter.  This one was in a garden in Surrey on Christmas day 2010.

They enjoy Cotoneaster berries.  Click on any picture to enlarge it.

A similar number of Fieldfares come to the UK from Scandinavia.  This one above, was in the New Forest, Hampshire on 4 January 2010.

The Teal population approaches 200,000 in winter, seen above at Calshot Marshes in Hampshire on 5 January 2010. 

The peak winter visitors of Bar-tailed Godwits in the foreground above may reach 66,000 to 80,000 individuals.  This was in the Axe estuary in Devon on 3 November 2010 with the larger Curlew behind it.