Birds spotted in the big freeze

A Redwing Turdus iliacus eating snow. JohnDear 12 Jan 2010, 9:21AM Not exactly rare but I saw a Redwing in the centre of my hometown on Saturday, a few feet from the main road. Photograph: Andrew Darrington/guardian.co.uk

Parakeets feeding on snow covered bird feeders in Carshalton Beeches. DoubleAgentSmith 12 Jan 2010, 9:22AM Flocks of parakeets in W3. Photograph: Phil Cole/guardian.co.uk

Common Snipe Capella gallinago in snow. deadelvis 12 Jan 2010, 9:43AM There's been a pair of Snipe by the brook on the local golf-course near me in South Manchester over the last couple of weeks; never seen any before. Plenty of Fieldfare's and Redwings too. Photograph: Renee Morris/guardian.co.uk

Male blackbird looking for food where a tree has sheltered the ground from the snow, Hoxne, Suffolk. Normanlewish 12 Jan 2010, 9:58AM I also saw redwings in the back garden (in Dalston, East London) a week or so ago, which was a pleasant surprise. There's not much else though, apart from the regulars: blackbirds, magpies, starlings and pigeons. Even the coal tits have vanished in the last week. Photograph: Graham Turner/guardian.co.uk

A Great white egret with a fish in its beak in France. tumu 12 Jan 2010, 10:13AM We live in north west and have seen fieldfare in the back field, also have an incredibly high number of blackbirds visiting the garden. Also saw an egret in the field just before the snow fell - is this unusual? Photograph: Christophe Karaba/guardian.co.uk

Female Brambling perched in the snow, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland. Elearn 12 Jan 2010, 10:13AM Bramblings here - the Euro-disco chaffinch - very pretty Photograph: Mark Hamblin/Photolibrary RM/guardian.co.uk

A thrush. julia68 12 Jan 2010, 11:29AM We've had 2 fieldfares scaring off all the blackbirds and thrushes for the past few days, and eating all the rosehips. First time we've had them in our city centre garden in 15 years of living here... Photograph: David Cole/guardian.co.uk

A coot walks on the ice on a frozen Connaught Waters, Epping Forest. Molly001 12 Jan 2010, 12:26PM Lots of common-or-garden variety birds visiting my feeders, but seeing a coot eating oatmeal with the robins etc. was a bit surreal. Photograph: Graham Turner/guardian.co.uk

A Grey heron stands on one leg in the snow at Berlin's Zoologischer Garten zoo. AugustusCaesar 12 Jan 2010, 1:33PM How far do herons venture away from water? Saw one in the middle of a field recently not particularly close to any body of water, to the best of my knowledge. Photograph: John MacDougall/guardian.co.uk

Bullfinch on a perch. AugustusCaesar 12 Jan 2010, 1:29PM At least two fieldfares spotted in my folks' garden over the weekend. That's a built up area of Bradford. Most unusual bird we've seen. Only ever seen blackbirds, song thrushes, sparrows, robins, tits and starlings before. I spotted bullfinches and greenfinches just near New Pudsey station a little while back too. The bullfinch looked very striking against the snowy backdrop. Photograph: Andy Rouse/The Image Bank/guardian.co.uk