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20-12-2007, 04:03 PM
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Within the last month, I've started to feed the birds in the garden (had already been feeding at the allotment). Today, I counted quite a few different birds, mainly squabbling starlings, along with sparrows, dunnock, robin, blackbirds, blue tits, chaffinch and even a magpie stopped to visit. Latest visitor was shy, but I managed to photograph it through the seriously-in-need-of-a-good-clean windows! 
First impression is that the birdie is a thrush, though I don't recall seeing them that orangey.
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20-12-2007, 04:08 PM
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Well done matey sounds great, keep feeding them and they will stay around |
20-12-2007, 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by stephen p  Well done matey sounds great, keep feeding them and they will stay around | Shame I can't feed them over christmas. Still - the birdies at my mum's will be happy. |
20-12-2007, 04:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Goosegogs First impression is that the birdie is a thrush, though I don't recall seeing them that orangey. | It's a Fieldfare, a member of the thrush family 
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20-12-2007, 04:18 PM
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Beat me to it Tursiops2! A fieldfare it is, and rather a fine bird too. |
20-12-2007, 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Tursiops2 It's a Fieldfare, a member of the thrush family
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20-12-2007, 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Tursiops2 It's a Fieldfare, a member of the thrush family
T2 | I was thinking the same, lovely bird but I've never seen one in the flesh.
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20-12-2007, 06:36 PM
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Originally Posted by demicav I was thinking the same, lovely bird but I've never seen one in the flesh. | You should get yourself around here, there are thousands in the Lincolnshire Wolds |
20-12-2007, 08:17 PM
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Originally Posted by demicav I was thinking the same, lovely bird but I've never seen one in the flesh. | Driving to work this morning I lost count of the number of Fieldfares and Redwings. They were in nearly every hedgerow (Hawthorn) and loads in adjacent fields. Brilliant to see.
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20-12-2007, 08:31 PM
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Nice one goosegogs, although there are plenty of fieldfares around at the moment they don't usually come into the garden until the hedgerow berries are all gone, try a small amount of any canned fruit, with the juice strained off, placed on an open patch of ground and it will very probably become a regular visitor.
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20-12-2007, 10:23 PM
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What's the give away for a fieldfare? If you're driving along, what alerts you that it isn't a thrush in the hedge but a fieldfare? | | |
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