So here it is, the big one of the year, hopefully half a million of us all taking the time this weekend to count our garden birds.
It's our once-a-year snapshot of the health of the nation's gardens.
And I've got my Coxes and Spartans out and ready to try and ensure I get this beauty back in my garden.
Isn't it stunning? Yes, the snows have pushed the Fieldfares over the Downs and into gardens all around here in Sussex.
I took the photo on Wednesday. I don't have a garden big enough for a lawn, so this is actually on my garage roof where I let a bed of moss grow. It's such a safe place for them to feed up above all the cats below.
Every now and then as you're walking around you hear their loud 'chak chak chak'. It is really distinctive from this winter visitor from Scandinavia.
And then if you get a view like this they're easy to identify - it is a identikit bird, with grey head, dark streaked breast over a warm buff background, white belly, yellow bill, chestnut back and grey rump.
But the bit I like the best? The black chevrons along each side.
May your Big Garden Birdwatch be blessed with Fieldfares too!
If you want to drop by my RSPB wildlife gardening blog, it is updated every Friday, and I'd love to see you there - www.rspb.org.uk/community/blogs/hfw
one fieldfare in Hackney E8 eating old blackberries
I also had 2 fieldfares in my garden in Ipswich. I discovered they preferred red apples to green ones and were also very feisty and territorial swooping down and chasing the blackbirds away! Beautiful birds - really enjoyed watching them and taking photos.
We had a visit from six fieldfares to our garden in Mynydd Isa, North Wales. This is the first time we have seen them. They were attracted by the apples and pears put out for the blackbirds during the snow.
Have had a fieldfare in my garden in Cheshire for about 10 days - loves apples & chases off all other species - fab Bird - hope he stays for a while - Brian J (Tarvin)
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Two Fieldfares (Fred & Freda) have been visiting us regularly in Lincolnshire for the past three or four weeks and love apples as well as the rose hips. Seen them for many years in the surrounding fields but this is the first year they have ventured into our garden - wonderful.
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