Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Fieldfares
I just saw a fieldfare in my fig tree. Any other sightings? Couldn't take a picture cos I was cleaning my teeth.
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Permalink Reply by HoL Site Admin on
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Couldn't resist passing on this response via Twitter:
@harringayonline . . .'and a fieldfare in a fig tree'. Sounds like a summer carol.
— Diana Rossborough (@TubeRambler) January 23, 2013
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Permalink Reply by HarringayBirder on
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You are very lucky! I haven't had a single one in my modest patio garden, even though we do have plenty of figs. I did catch a lovely redwing the other day, my photo of which HOnline was kind enough to re-tweet... :)
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Permalink Reply by linka on
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yes, two in next door's apple tree in the worst of the snow the other day - tussling over the higher branches.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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My partner spotted on in our garden yesterday. Maybe the sever weather is forcing them into towns?
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Permalink Reply by Angela on
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And our farming is now so efficient it leaves little waste for birds to feed from. Fieldfares are 'red status' according to RSPB. Some farmers are providing feeding stations for birds as part of conservation projects linked to the EU LIFE+ Farmland Bird Project.
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Permalink Reply by Kit on
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wonder if it's the same pair hanging out in our neighbour's apple tree? they seem to love apples. never saw a fieldfare before and had to use RSPB birdfinder to work out what they were. We usually get a flock of ten or twelve redwings hitting the apple tree in time for the RSPB big birdwatch weekend (jan 26-27 this year) but the wet summer meant slim pickings on the tree.
what can we offer the redwings instead?
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Sorry, that was him indoors not me who posted.
My question is - what has happened to all the usual gardens birds in this cold snap? I have only seen the odd blackbird so far and the bird food we have left out has barely been touched (we normally see robins, wrens, the occasional sparrow, wood pigeons and various tits). Last year we managed to to get a couples of collared doves.
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We back onto St. Annes hospital and get visits from woodpeckers, jays, chaffinches and also saw a pair of greenfinches last week, but only once. Plus a large group of sparrows who seem to be thriving in the area along with the usual blackbirds, robins and tits. No fieldfares as yet. Would love to see a song or mistle thrush though. Chris
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I believe there is a mistle thrush knocking around the western end of West Green Road but have seen them in greater numbers in Springfield Park (albeit that is a little distance away, in Clapton) and also in Downhills Park - but that was in the summer as I recall. The RSPB is saying there appears to be a shortage of mistles this year but it may be a degree of this is anecdotal because there are more redwings and fieldfares visible this year and so the mistle thrush seems rarer in comparison...
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a bit meagre here, and I had to use the RSPB list too, as I hadn't seen the fieldfares before and I've never seen redwings either. Once I saw a pied wagtail, but only once.
We have a lively flock of house sparrows, a few tits, one or two blackbirds occasionally and a robin. And quite a few pigeons. Occasionally a magpie or two, but that's pretty much it. Filling things with seeds to encourage more, but I'm apprehensively awaiting the development at St. Ann's which I imagine will reduce habitats further.
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Managed a full house of the winter thrushes in St Annes soon to be destroyed orchard this week-Fieldfares, Redwings,Mistle Thrushes and even [flying across Chestnuts park,] the rare and wonderful Waxwing. Not all on the same day, but still......Ally Pally's a good place to catch most of those at the moment too
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Here's one of those mistle thrushes from last July in Downhills Park..
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