An unusual snowy day late in January brought an unexpected bonus with the visit of this pair of Fieldfares, who just stayed long enough for a few quick photographs. The morning sunshine combined with the snow to give perfect lighting conditions which made up for the fact that the birds were quite a long way away.
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Photographs - January 2004
Six years later and another cold snap brought our first garden sightings of another winter visiting thrush, the Redwing. A group of six of them hung around for most of the day and were joined for a short while by a single Fieldfare.
Photographs - January 2010
This bird returned on a daily basis, even after the Redwings had stripped the cotoneaster of berries and moved on. The Fieldfare took to eating apple segments we put on the ground and, after a couple of days became quite aggressive in defending its new found territory, giving the local Blackbirds a hard time. These last four photos will enlarge pretty well.
An unusual snowy day late in January brought an unexpected bonus with the visit of this pair of Fieldfares, who just stayed long enough for a few quick photographs. The morning sunshine combined with the snow to give perfect lighting conditions which made up for the fact that the birds were quite a long way away.
Six years later and another cold snap brought our first garden sightings of another winter visiting thrush, the 
