Nice picture John, I have tried to catch up with this winter's Black Redstart on several occasions but no luck so far.
As with several other postees, deliberate pun for Ian, I have been having a lot of extra birds in the garden during this prolonged cold spell including several Song Thrushes and five or six male Blackbirds. Chaffinches number about 25 at any one time, again nearly all males, about 8 Greenfinches at last so they haven't all perished, Siskin numbers are steadily increasing with about 10-12 together with high numbers of Blue tits (abt 50), Great Tits (20+) and the usual Dunnocks, Robins, Sparrows (15-20), Wren and Starlings. But the newcomer is a male Blackcap, first seen yesterday for a few seconds only and then back this am for a longer visit. I just hope that they all survive whilst we depart for three days. We are hoping to collect up some migrants of our own as we travel England picking up our children for Christmas at home. It's fingers crossed time as our daughter is due to fly into Heathrow on Thursday from Kyushu in Japan (they have electric heating under their runways)