Outside our house at breakfast time, as heavy drizzle started to turn to "more organised" rain, hundreds of redwings and other thrushes (song thrushes and blackbirds) were noted in the hedgerow. A flock of several hundred appeared to have been grounded by the weather (the largest flock we have seen so far this autumn/winter). After a short while they flew off towards nearby horse-grazed pasture, presumably to feed. Presumably the awful weather conditions would have grounded many others elsewhere?
