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Bright Winter Fare #ShareMondays2025

I finally tracked down the visiting fieldfare in #RHSGardenWisley last week 😊 They love #crabapples! @rspb.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social #wildlife #nature #birding #gardens #horticulture #fujifilm_uk @birdguides.bsky.social
The image is of a fieldfare in profile, positioned centrally, looking upwards and to the right of the frame. It’s perched on a branch, surrounded by clusters of scarlet crab apple fruit, which are an important food source for migrating birds like fieldfares and redwings during winter. Some berries appear shriveled after recent frost or partially eaten. The natural, bare branches provide a textured foreground against a softly blurred, deep blue background of the winter sky. This contrast makes the subject and red berries stand out vividly. I was thrilled to finally discover where these winter migrant visitors to the UK were feeding at RHS Gardens Wisley this season. Having seen them roosting on the very tops of trees in wooded areas, I eventually tracked them to the far side of the orchards. Here they were feeding on windfall apples and their favourite crab apples that were planted along the borders. With the sun low in the sky behind me, the birds were lit with a warm glow and the skies took on a deep wintry blue tone, broken only by shadowed bokeh branches of oaks on the edge of the Jubilee Arboretum. 2025 was a mast year (plentiful) for nut and fruit bearing trees in the autumn with warmer weather helping them to remain fresh into the winter. Usually this bounty of food would bring large numbers of these migratory thrush species into the heart of the gardens but they have appeared scarce over the past few years. Here’s a description of the fieldfare from the RSPB: The Fieldfare is a large and striking bird. This chunky thrush has a grey head, lower-back and rump and chestnut upper-back and wings. Its tail is black and its heavily spotted breast sits on a warm ochre wash. They stand very upright and move forward with purposeful hops. They are very social birds, spending the winter in flocks of anything from ten or twenty to several hundred strong
January 12, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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Berry Merry Christmas #fsprintmonday @fotospeed.bsky.social

A festive tree decoration, a #bluetit, on purple beautyberry at #RHSGardenWisley 💜 #Nature is the gift that keeps on giving! I’m forever grateful for it 🌍 #wildlife #birds @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
My favourite festive tree decoration this year is this sweet little blue tit, seen here feeding on purple beautyberry (callicarpa), at RHS Garden Wisley a few weekends ago at a festive meetup for members of the SheClicks community. The background of the image is a soft graduation of colours starting with hints of orange in the lower left corner, turning to yellow and then green in the right hand half of the piece. These are the colours of the shrubs and ferns behind the subject seen completely out of focus. The purpleberry shrub has slender branches that are a greyish in colour and bear vibrant purple berries in clusters along the stems. A shallow depth of field was used to create patches of blurred purple bokeh from berries on stems in the fore and background of the main subject. The blue tit is perched centre left of the landscape aspect image. It’s in profile with its head turned to look to the right along the length of its body. Centre right of the image is text in a handwritten style that reads “Berry Merry Christmas”. Here’s a description from Google of the Blue Tit: A small, vibrant European bird known for its bright blue cap, white cheeks with a black eye stripe, yellow breast, and blue/green wings, making it a common and attractive garden visitor. About 12cm long, it's agile, often seen hanging upside down foraging for insects and seeds, with females slightly paler than males. 
December 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Berry Merry Christmas
Belated #SeasonsGreetings2025 🎄 A festive tree decoration, a #bluetit, on purple beautyberry at #RHSGardenWisley 😊💜 #Nature is the gift that keeps on giving! I’m forever grateful for it 🌍 #wildlife #birds @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social #fujifilm_uk #RHS @rspb.bsky.social
My favourite festive tree decoration this year is this sweet little blue tit, seen here feeding on purple beautyberry (callicarpa), at RHS Garden Wisley a few weekends ago at a festive meetup for members of the SheClicks community. The background of the image is a soft graduation of colours starting with hints of orange in the lower left corner, turning to yellow and then green in the right hand half of the piece. These are the colours of the shrubs and ferns behind the subject seen completely out of focus. The purpleberry shrub has slender branches that are a greyish in colour and bear vibrant purple berries in clusters along the stems. A shallow depth of field was used to create patches of blurred purple bokeh from berries on stems in the fore and background of the main subject. The blue tit is perched centre left of the landscape aspect image. It’s in profile with its head turned to look to the right along the length of its body. Centre right of the image is text in a handwritten style that reads “Berry Merry Christmas”. Here’s a description from Google of the Blue Tit: A small, vibrant European bird known for its bright blue cap, white cheeks with a black eye stripe, yellow breast, and blue/green wings, making it a common and attractive garden visitor. About 12cm long, it's agile, often seen hanging upside down foraging for insects and seeds, with females slightly paler than males. 
December 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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23,000 bulbs added to the Oudolf Landscape at RHS Wisley ...read more on thedirt.news #OudolfLandscape #PietOudolf #RHS #RHSGardenWisley #Wisley #horticulture #gardens #bulbs
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23,000 Bulbs Added To The Oudolf Landscape At RHS Wisley
Landscape designer Piet Oudolf will be adding 23,000 bulbs to his borders at the Oudolf Landscape at RHS Garden Wisley this month.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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A3/M25 Roadworks result in £6 million losses for the RHS and 25% reduction in RHS Wisley visitors ...read more on thedirt.news #RHS #RHSGardenWisley
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Roadworks Result In £6 Million Losses For The RHS And 25% Reduction In RHS Wisley Visitors
The Royal Horticultural Society calls for compensation as the A3/M25 Roadworks leads to 350,000 fewer people visiting RHS Garden Wisley with devastating
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January 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM