Mice! Posted March 1, 2018 Report Share Posted March 1, 2018 looks like a chaffinch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted March 1, 2018 Report Share Posted March 1, 2018 (edited) Female Chaffinch. Edited March 1, 2018 by JDog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakeside1000 Posted March 1, 2018 Report Share Posted March 1, 2018 26 minutes ago, Pushandpull said: When I was very young they were called Felts. We ate them. They are still on the quarry list in France. Everything is on the quarry list in France, I was tractor driving on a 400 acre estate in the Charente a few years back when a Frenchman with a shotgun stopped me to ask what the bird was he had just shot, to my disgust he held up a Tawney Owl, It was all I could do not to run over him with the tractor, similarly on a campsite just off the A10 in central France we were enjoying an evenings fishing on the river Charente when next to us a young lad pulled in a 10 inch common carp and beat it to death with a stick, I asked what he was doing and he said getting his dinner, I assume he did this with everything he caught, They are brought up to catch or shoot anything edible, that's all they know, but it was always difficult for us, ( my wife and I ) to accept it as 'normal'.Some other things they consider tasty snacks are coypu known locally as Ragonda , they roast the saddle or preserve it in jars, also tiny white fish which can be roach,rudd,bream or baby chub, which they catch on rod and line and boil up whole to make a kind of fish stew, mmmm tasty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yates Posted March 1, 2018 Report Share Posted March 1, 2018 1 hour ago, JDog said: That may have been a Redwing. Not quite a red stripe more like brown. From your comments and Penelope’s photo I am almost sure that it was a red wing. Thanks to both of you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie&bezza Posted March 1, 2018 Report Share Posted March 1, 2018 2 hours ago, JDog said: Female Chaffinch. Thanks JDog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisheruk Posted March 1, 2018 Report Share Posted March 1, 2018 Chaffinch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man Posted March 1, 2018 Report Share Posted March 1, 2018 3 hours ago, winnie&bezza said: Sorry for jumping on this thread but what this one? Got a little tuft on its head. Sorry if too poor a pic Chaffinch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol p Posted March 1, 2018 Report Share Posted March 1, 2018 Fieldfares. Proper bullies, they'll see all the regular songbirds off and will leave when they've scoffed all the grub. We've got a flock of about a hundred over at the cressing shoot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyefor Posted March 1, 2018 Report Share Posted March 1, 2018 7 hours ago, Pushandpull said: When I was very young they were called Felts. We ate them. They are still on the quarry list in France. 7 hours ago, Dekers said: Been an education for me this thread! And me. France has a quarry list? That's either "anything that flies - apart from aircraft and anything with four legs apart from table and chairs" or (if its a blank sheet) anything on the list? If either, it was purloined from the Greeks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnfromUK Posted March 2, 2018 Report Share Posted March 2, 2018 Unusually, the hard weather has brought both redwings and fieldfares into the garden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad93 Posted March 2, 2018 Report Share Posted March 2, 2018 (edited) The birds will be very hungry at the minute. Going to pick up some more food for them today. Often get mistle thrushes and field fares Edited March 2, 2018 by Brad93 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie&bezza Posted March 2, 2018 Report Share Posted March 2, 2018 A customer of mine was showing me pics of a waxwing she had in her garden. Pretty little bird it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powler Posted March 3, 2018 Report Share Posted March 3, 2018 We’ve had a Redwing coming in for the last few days as we got feeders under cover so the birds can get to the food with no snow on it, posh dining. Great to see, he loves the mealworms. Mick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnfromUK Posted March 3, 2018 Report Share Posted March 3, 2018 It interests me that the Blackbirds are 'bossy' and drive the Redwings and Fieldfares away fiercely, but tolerate the Robins and a lone Pigeon without any worrying them at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walshie Posted March 3, 2018 Report Share Posted March 3, 2018 The birds are really hungry. We normally have 3 robins come to our garden but they usually squabble like mad and keep a good distance between themselves. A couple of days ago there were 7 quite happily eating and not fighting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man Posted March 3, 2018 Report Share Posted March 3, 2018 3 hours ago, walshie said: The birds are really hungry. We normally have 3 robins come to our garden but they usually squabble like mad and keep a good distance between themselves. A couple of days ago there were 7 quite happily eating and not fighting. Good survival strategy that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted March 3, 2018 Report Share Posted March 3, 2018 On 3/1/2018 at 14:24, winnie&bezza said: Sorry for jumping on this thread but what this one? Got a little tuft on its head. Sorry if too poor a pic Hen Chaffinch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FOXHUNTER1 Posted March 3, 2018 Report Share Posted March 3, 2018 On 02/03/2018 at 05:57, JohnfromUK said: Unusually, the hard weather has brought both redwings and fieldfares into the garden. Yep , for the 1st time ever I saw a fieldfare in the garden yesterday . See them all the time in the fields. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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