. Our native songsters . ^man remark, alludingto the fieldfares and redwings in the spring, thatthere would be no warm weather till those birds haddone chattering. Sometimes the common thriLshesare observed to congicgate with the small parties * The Fieldfare 13 ten inches in length. The upper parts ingeneral are ash-grey, but the back and wings are umber-bro>vnand the tail is blackish: chin and throat fine yellow; breastreddish-brown ; belly white ; the throat and breast, and the crownof the head, spotted with black : the beak and feet THE FIELDFARE. 47 of fieldfares, wliicli arc i
. Our native songsters . ^man remark, alludingto the fieldfares and redwings in the spring, thatthere would be no warm weather till those birds haddone chattering. Sometimes the common thriLshesare observed to congicgate with the small parties * The Fieldfare 13 ten inches in length. The upper parts ingeneral are ash-grey, but the back and wings are umber-bro>vnand the tail is blackish: chin and throat fine yellow; breastreddish-brown ; belly white ; the throat and breast, and the crownof the head, spotted with black : the beak and feet THE FIELDFARE. 47 of fieldfares, wliicli arc in company thus notices these birds:— The hedgers toils oft scare the doves that browzeThe chocolate berries on the ivy boughs ;Or flocking fieldfares, speckled like the thnish,Picking the berry from the hawthorn bush,That come and go on winters chilling wing,And seem to have no sympathy with spring. In sonic years, when these birds liave arrivedhere by the end of September, the snow havinglain long on the ground, they have cleared off allthe ivy-berries in the neighbourhood, eating themmiripened, and before they were as large as apea. In milder seasons, the fieldfares spreadthemselves in flocks over the fallow-lands andpastures, hunting for the slugs and worms, whichthey seem to prefer to the berries, to which theyresort when these animals cannot be thrushes remain with us usually till aboutthe coming back of the swallow; but they havebeen seen and heard sometimes as late as themiddle of ^lay. The nest has b
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