Back on the tops, a flock of fieldfares had gathered in a pasture but were soon frightened off by a kestrel. |
A hundred fieldfares were nervously shifting from the fields to trees then back to the fields. |
Most observations relate to larks, pipits and finches but kestrels are capable of taking such quarry as fieldfares, turtle doves and lapwing. |
Like waxwings, fieldfares are nomadic and show no allegiance to regular wintering areas. |
The first known breeding of fieldfares in Britain was in 1967 when a pair nested in Orkney. |
Starlings had the pickings from the grass one side of the hairpin road, fieldfares the other. |