Redwings and Fieldfares

Louise, what lovely photos. Two species? I must be a bit thick but I can only see 1 kind of bird. Are they Redwings? They are certainly very lovely birds.
Are they male and female Redwings?
I wait with bated breath to find out.

The ones with the grey heads are Fieldfares Mad, they have no red markings and they're quite large birds.
The Redwings have a white stripe over their eye and the red alongside their wing.

~ we had a mixed flock today and the Redwing is the one with the speckled breast and orange /red at the sides of the breast under the wing~we had this enormous Mistle Thrush and they certainly like apples/grapes and dried fruit!

Nice photos

Good pics, Louise :o)

What pretty little birds.....we get fieldfares up here...but not in my garden unfortunately......

I've only seen one fieldfare, and not in my garden. I wish they'd come - it must be lovely to have the winter birds.

Mind you, they must be regretting leaving whereever they came from - don't they migrate here from so called 'colder' countries?

Thank you Louise. I haven't seen a Fieldfare before. You are lucky to have them and the Redwings, we don't have either.

Wow,Louise...how lucky you are ! This is fantastic.Your photos are lovely and clear too ...great to see......

Awww, thanks Bb :-)

Thanks everyone, they're great to watch ..... i'm getting no work done though, got the binoculars stuck to my eyes - )

~ I did read they may come down from Scotland if it gets colder up there?` and yes spent all day watching them!

Aha ! They're hoping for a few degrees warmer down here then.
Not by many though :-/

We normally get both but not seen any redwings yet this winter and just the solitary fieldfare in the garden.

`~ no!~ still quite cold Louise~ I have been tipping the water out of bowls for the birds and putting out fresh~ it is solid lumps of ice and it hasn't thawed all day~

we get these too. and today a flock of about 20 waxwings were moving through the gardens. saw them in flight but not up close.

Waxwings ? Fantastic Sbg !

~some years ago when we were in the northeast a large flock of waxwings arrived on our estate which had a Rowan tree at the end of each drive~ they sat there in groups until all the berries were gone and them moved on!~ still remember that~

Wow Arlene..what a sight that must have been ! Must plant a Rowan !! Lol

a similar thing happened about 15 yrs ago too. i lived in a street called rowan ave, and all the berries got stripped just as you say. I did manage to get a photo that time.

~only thing to beat that was the circle/leck of Black Grouse we saw on the MOD ranges in the Cheviots~ awesome!

lovely pics louise ive not seen these before either,look like they are on stilts lol

LOL Joanella, i thought so too !

~ I though I had pushy starlings but there is a very large Fieldfare in the garden this morning giving the starlings a very hard time~he is much too big to argue with!How long will they usually stay anyone?

They are big birds aren't they !!!
I was wondering the same thing Arlene ..... all reference books say they're here 'til April but i wonder if they 'move about' whilst they're here .... moving to different regions etc?

These Fieldfare birds are beautiful, we too have them in our garden and they love to eat apples. they do fight each other they seem very territorial, but suppose this cold weather they are protecting their food source!
your pictures are really good.

Thank you Ashkimagha :-)

Lovely pictures of lovely birds. Don't see either of these here - too much woodland I think.

They are quite pretty aren't they.

So sorry I missed this blog, especialy as I also did a blog on these birds.
What a great time we had when the snow arrived and the Fieldfares and Redwings visited our gardens regularly.
Well done Louise, happy memories.