Redwings & Fieldfares

Next time you are in Hadlow, check out the playing field adjacent to Garrad House. There were large parties of Redwings and Fieldfares feeding under the trees next to the road this morning.

We usually think of visiting migrant birds in the summer, but Redwings (light stripe above eye and chestnut flanks) and Fieldfares (like Mistle Thrushes but with slate grey upper parts) arrive in winter to escape the freezing conditions of their breeding grounds in Scandinavia and Northern Europe.