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.
Hence we may be assured that fieldfares and redwings breed in Sweden.
Fieldfares and redwings disappear sooner or later according as the warm weather comes on earlier or later.
By degrees the fieldfares and redwings disappeared.
But they had died in the daytime too, and I found their remains all about the fields, mostly starlings, but dead redwings and thrushes were also plentiful.
Fieldfares and redwings rose out of the hedges and flew away in their peculiarly scattered manner--their flocks, though proceeding in the same direction, seeming all loose and disordered.
They are redwings and thrushes; every withy-bed is full of them.
The redwings had not yet come; the acorns were full, but still green; the greedy rooks longed to see them riper.
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.
Then, looking farther and watching about the hedges there, I soon found that the bird was not alone--there were three or four pairs of redwings in close neighbourhood, all evidently bent upon remaining to breed.
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.
Flocks of redwingsand fieldfares are commonly seen during the end of the season.
Following the course of the stream, fieldfares and redwings rise in numbers from every hawthorn bush, where they have been feeding on the peggles.
But now in autumn the haws are red on the thorn, the swallows are few as they were in the earliest spring; the sedge-birds have flown, and the redwings will soon be here.
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.
In October I saw several flocks of redwings leave the Spurn.
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 redwingsdrifted by in the winter, but never stopped.
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.
On up he went, round and round in a rapid, mounting spiral, till only one of the daringredwings followed.
To make out the voices of redwings and marsh-wrens in the rasping notes of the city sparrows behind the shutter required much more imagination.
The Redwings place their nests where it would seem very easy to reach them; but really the bushes are either surrounded by a little creek, hidden deep in the reeds, or the ground is so marshy that neither man nor beast can come near.
The Redwings nest in colonies; so do the Herons, who eat frogs and nest near water, and the little brown-cloaked Bank Swallows, who live in holes that they dig for themselves in high banks.
The Redwings and Meadowlarks sing all day long, the Marsh Wrens come along to join in, the Snipe begin to call, the Spotted Sandpipers whistle up, and we get a visit from the Wild Geese as they fly north.
The Redwings are sociable birds, nesting in small colonies, and when once settled they never seem to stray far from home.
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