Where to see fieldfares and redwings
Autumn welcomes the arrival of fieldfares and redwings, noisy and gregarious birds often seen feasting in our orchards. They gather along the coasts of Scandinavia and northern Europe as the days shorten to begin their long and risky flight to the UK to over-winter here. Fieldfares and redwings start arriving in early October and nearly all will have left by late April. They are very social birds, spending the winter in flocks of anything from a dozen or two to several hundred strong, moving from orchard to orchard across the countryside.