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Fieldfare chick

 

 

Fieldfares are well known to urban people, after all there are a hundred to a few hundred thousand breeding pairs. Quite large groups are encountered in garden cities, parks and cemeteries. The doings of the birds are nearly always accompanied by an incessant chattering and this we will be hearing into half of June. When a bird of prey appears the chattering can swell to a downright racket.

 

Fieldfare with earthworms

 

The female and male look similar. We have to do with a big thrush, back maroon brown, head and gump grey, long tail, back black, upper side black, underside yellowish with sparse dark flecks.