Birds battle storms to feed

While human beings could shut and lock their doors and battend down the hatches, safe against the high winds and torrential rain that battered the landscape during December and early January... wildlife was not so lucky.
A baby goldfinch on the feeder at the home of Sentinel Reporter Olga Bradshaw.A baby goldfinch on the feeder at the home of Sentinel Reporter Olga Bradshaw.
A baby goldfinch on the feeder at the home of Sentinel Reporter Olga Bradshaw.

Garden visitors like birds were forced to forage for food as normal despite being buffeted by the wind and drenched in the rain, as the attached video shows.

Tiny garden birds like coal tits, greenfinches and chaffinches, as well as a solitary robin made a bee-line for easy pickings at bird feeders, but some heavy gusts of wind had them hanging on for dear life...

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