fieldfare

a fieldfare munching away at the hawthorne berries.

Fieldfare's, Redwing and Common Starlings are all together feeding in a field next to the house. The field recently had cattle in.

The day the fieldfares cleared out the sargent apples was, obviously, and typically, a rainy one. Otherwise, I just wanted to say that I won't be posting very often the next few months. My surgery was tougher than expected, then a second surgery was needed, and that too was tougher than...

We don't provide napkins at the feeders or shrubs. This fieldfare seems to be looking for me to hand him one from indoors.

I got two shots of fieldfares tossing back a little apple, with the apple both mid-beak and mid-air, like a bar show-off catching peanuts. Didn't get any comments on the first of them, but then that one wasn't so sharp. Maybe folks will like this one better.

Another image from the fieldfares' field day at the sargent apple bush (malus sargentii).

But I'm not.

Many of the garden feeder photos were taken on rainy days. Including this one, but there was a break in the rain for a moment. This was the day a massive flock of fieldfares arrived and emptied the sargent apple shrub just outside the living room window. Another trait the garden feeder photos...

my first photograph of one this winter, hopefully there will be lots more to follow as I really like them.

Perched facing the most terrible rain shower.

Just a taster of the fieldfare pics from yesterday. The Norwegian version of the fable has a punch line that works better as a title for this one - hyt henger de og sure er de (high they hang and sour they are). They are sour, but the fieldfares didn't seem to mind. The one on the right here had...

Well Peeps, Early kick-off for me today, meeting up with BF's John Finlayson. We were going to Lakenheath Fen looking for Bearded Tits, but because of the very windy conditions, we are off to Lackford Lakes, looking for Kingfishers. Wish us luck, see y'all later.

On my way out of the churchyard I heard a familiar commotion from a copse of rohan trees. Yup. Sure enough. The fieldfares were having a field day. Looks like my husband may be too late picking rohans again. Last year he had the flu just the week he ought to have picked them. By the time he was...

And this wasn't the only fieldfare in the rohan trees. The trees were raucous with them.

"There are enough rohanberries for everybody!" Only last year there weren't. Last year the trees looked loaded with them until right after the first frost, right when you're supposed to pick them. Then the biggest flock of waxwings I've ever seen came through and emptied the trees in...

Taken through my office window today. Window not too clean, sky grey, bird ... well, I actually think they're quite pretty, but they're not popular here. They have a reputation for gobbling up garden fruits and berries and then adding insult to injury by [email protected] on the clean clothes out on the...

an old one from my library.had a week off last week and never had one sunny day,great day today though and tomorrow wonder what the weather has in mind for my days off wed-thurs

a fieldfare on branch

Three Thrushes for ya today.