Taken on a cold wet day in January the Fieldfare is sitting on a branch of a Guelder Rose where it has been feeding on the red berries. Rain is falling and it has formed droplets on the feather of the bird.
The fieldfare is a large member of the thrush family and is slightly bigger than a blackbird. It has a characteristic blue-grey head with a yellow beak, brown-grey wings and a speckled breast.
Each year, thousands of fieldfares leave Scandinavia and even Russia to spend the winter in the comparatively mild UK. The birds typically begin to arrive in September and nearly all will have left by late April.
Afternoon All !
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Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris), our garden in #EastAnglia, UK. January 2025
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