carosio Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Sorry about quality, took from a distance last week on a grim, grey day. They look rather like fat thrushes. https://i.imgur.com/FNgl7hL.jpg https://i.imgur.com/9KEY8SI.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beauchiefs Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Could be Wagtails Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Are they field fares..? https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/fieldfare We had a load (about 20) in our garden last week when it was snowing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin-H Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Difficult to tell. Could they be fat thrushes? Fieldfares? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gormenghast Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Are they field fares..? https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/fieldfare We had a load (about 20) in our garden last week when it was snowing. Yes, we had about the same number in the garden last week and I thought they were fieldfares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carosio Posted March 8, 2018 Author Share Posted March 8, 2018 Seems to have been identified then as Fieldfares. They were trying to get to the water under the thin ice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horribleblob Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Yes, I've had a pair of Fieldfares visiting the garden this past week, chasing the blackbirds away from the food I'd put out. They were quite aggressive and I first thought they were Mistle Thrushes until I got the binocs out for a closer look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fogey Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Fieldfares. I had friends in Rotherham post on facebook they had been visited by em and we got quite a flock around our garden in the midlands. Somebody more knowledgeable than me told me it was because of the very cold weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinfoilhat Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Probably fieldfares. I had one in the garden in the bad weather - it looked knackered. That said, the bottom picture makes me think they could be also be redwings. To confuse matters further they often go around in mixed flocks. Ask taxman, he'll know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carosio Posted March 8, 2018 Author Share Posted March 8, 2018 I think you can just make out some spot markings on the their breast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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