After the arrival of the fieldfares the days seem to rapidly shorten, till towards the end of December the cocks, reversing their usual practice, crow in the evening, hours before midnight.
Following the course of the stream, fieldfares and redwings rise in numbers from every hawthorn bush, where they have been feeding on the peggles.
Thrushes and blackbirds come to the hedges surrounding these meadows; the fieldfares and redwings are there by hundreds, and fly up to the trees if alarmed.
By-the-by, the ploughboys call the fieldfares `velts.
Flocks of redwings and fieldfares are commonly seen during the end of the season.
Hence we may be assured thatfieldfares and redwings breed in Sweden.
Fieldfares and redwings disappear sooner or later according as the warm weather comes on earlier or later.
The martins and red-wing fieldfares were flying in sight together; an uncommon assemblage of summer and winter birds.
It is well known, at least, that the swallows and the fieldfares do congregate with a gentle twittering before they make their respective departure.
Sure there can be no doubt but that woodcocks and fieldfares leave us in the spring, in order to cross the seas, and to retire to some districts more suitable to the purpose of breeding.
In the parish of Allesby, near Coventry, Fieldfares were observed as late as the 14th of May.
The gamekeeper narrowly escaped being stoned by myself and some more lads, any one of whom would have shot fifty Blackbirds or Fieldfares without any misgivings.
Fieldfares or redwings disappear sooner or later according as the warm weather comes on earlier or later.
Hence we may be assured that fieldfares and redwings build in Sweden.
The martins and red-wing fieldfares were flying in sight together, an uncommon assemblage of summer and winter birds!
In summer several migrants add variety to the bird life, and fieldfaresmay always be seen in winter.
Certainly they are tamer than fieldfares are apt to be in the country, but they seldom penetrate far into the brick-and-mortar wilderness.
I have seen a few in Kensington Gardens, and in November, 1896, a few fieldfares alighted on a tree at the Tower of London.
Shortly the fieldfares will come, but not generally till the redwings have appeared below in the valleys; while the fieldfares go upon the hills, the green plovers, as autumn comes on, gather in flocks and go down to the plains.
Some redwings come here every winter, but they are less common than fieldfares and they are not so noticeable.
We see fieldfares chiefly when they first arrive in October, and again in early spring, before they leave, but, of course, there are some with us most of the winter.
The Yantle is a great favourite with Plovers, Turtle-doves, and Wood-pigeons, and in the winter it is much patronized by Fieldfares and Redwings.
But few have seen the Fieldfares and Redwings under the same conditions, and I find no account of their migration, or at least of what actually happens when they go, in any book within my reach as I write.
I have seen Fieldfares and Redwings doing the same thing in Christ Church meadow at Oxford, but the unfrozen Cherwell was within a few yards of them.
Besides which in a short time he will receive large reinforcements, for his allies, the fieldfares and redwings, are preparing to set sail across the sea hither.
That the fieldfares and redwings do so I can say with confidence, because, as they move in large flocks, there is no difficulty in tracing the direction in which they are going.
When frost prevents access to food in the east, thrushes and blackbirds move westwards, just as the fieldfares and redwings do.
The fieldfares will soon be here now, and the redwings, coming as they have done for generations about the time of the sowing of the corn.
Two or more fieldfares were watching in an elm some distance down; the flock to which they belonged was feeding, partly in the meadow and partly in the hedge.
That friend was Lord Edward Bentinck, whose culinary fame began on the sparrows and fieldfares knocked down about the Five Chimnies and Jenny's whim.
The very rooks are black, and the starlings and the wintry fieldfares and redwings have no colour at a distance.
Starlings were not at all plentiful; blackbirds and thrushes were there, but not nearly so numerous as is usually the case; fieldfares and redwings drifted by in the winter, but never stopped.
I did not think England had so many fieldfares and redwings.
By degrees thefieldfares and redwings disappeared.
The fieldfares are in clover here: they get food, drink, sunshine when there is any, and above all the solitude they so deeply love.
One autumn there had been but a poor crop of berries; and by the time the fieldfares arrived in middle England the blackbirds and missel-thrushes had already rifled the hedges of much of their fruit.
The Fieldfares are only with us in winter, and they seek their food over the fields and pasture lands in mild weather, and eat the berries when frost comes, and snow covers the ground.
Fieldfares and Mistletoe Thrushes usually sell at fourpence each, the rest at fourpence a couple.
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