According to our Collins bird book, we appear to have a pair of Fieldfares in our garden although it states that they tend to be wintering north of the Pennines. We live in South Devon and are wondering if anybody else has had any??
Lots of people have had fieldfares visiting their gardens during this harsh weather - I'm in North Cornwall and I've had one taken up residence in my garden for the past week, and seen several others in the area.
I think its great, as they also seem to be quite happy in my garden eating food and chasing off anything that remotely challenges them usually blckbirds etc but they seem to ignore the smaller birds like finches and sparrows ??
HI housey
Welcome to the forum.
I suggest you click on the fieldfares tag on the top right of the main forum page and you will see how many posts there have been.
Basically they are coming into gardens all over the country. You may well find that they are quite aggressive to other birds if they have a source of food that they are trying to protect
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Hiya
We get fieldfares regularly here in mid-Devon in the winter months, so not at all a rarity this far south. I usually see them as a small flock (maybe 20), either on the ground foraging or roosting in a big tree, quite high up. I find that their best distinguishing feature is the slate-grey rump and they are much bigger than the other thrushes (apart from the mistle thrush, but they don't tend to fly in flocks in the same way). I hope this is helpful.
not too common in gardens,but with the weather we have now;it brings them to gardens looking for food.there are plenty of them in the fields in devon and somerset,especially around orchards
Housey - I have had a solitary Fieldfare turn up in the garden last week and he is still around. Lovely bird. I am in Wiltshire.
Hi, I live in Doncaster and have 2 fieldfare's in the garden, they arrrived about a week to 10 days ago. They seem happy as i keep supplying them with apples.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/jersey/hi/people_and_places/nature/newsid_8457000/8457273.stm
did you see on the new about fieldfares
I have had some in my garden.
Hey farmer, farmer, put away the D.D.T now. Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please!
Not spotted any in the garden but pretty sure we've seen a few small flocks on the way to work - alas! no place to stop and watch as we drove past....
Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games [Robert Falcon Scott]
hi, I'm in North Wales and i had seven, but am now down to one (no idea where his mates have gone, maybe he smells?). I had to ask too, because i had never seen one before, and he didnt look that much like to one in my book (at least not from the front, which is where i first saw him)!
Here's a pic i took of mine in case it helps you identify yours more positively (okay, okay i just like the picture!)- fab creatures, aren't they?