fieldfare

On a smaller scale, the two Scandinavian thrush species, redwings and fieldfares, are starting to arrive, and they will be joined by other charming northern songbirds, such as bramblings and snow buntings.

Thrushes, blackbirds, redwings and fieldfares feast on berries throughout the winter.

To be honest at first I was more excited about a picture I’d taken earlier, which I had thought was a fieldfare – a type of thrush.

The fellfare or fieldfare, a little thrush, feeds upon the tempting red berries in winter; but even when these dashes of color are all gone, the brilliance of the spiny-margined leaves enlivens any landscape.

Wood-pigeons go to the few places that remain moist, and also frequent the hawthorn bushes with the fieldfares.