A Crundale garden

We have a couple of crab apple trees in the garden, one which has cherry sized apples. This is its best year yet and is heavy laden with fruit. Watching during lunch we had at least a dozen blackbirds, a song thrush, several fieldfare and redwing, at least one mistle thrush, plus two female and one male blackcap in the tree and around the garden. These are in addition to our house sparrows, chaffinches, dunnock, wrens, starlings and assorted tits and a near-tame robin. The local blackbird has given up trying to chase away the competition, which means we sometimes have upwards of 14 members of the thrush family in the tree at once. Unfortunately, they all seem to go to the elm tree overlooking our cars to relieve themselves.