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steve45
steve45
Oct 2019
9:56am, 1 Oct 2019
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Good challenge meadowsboy and nice total.

Thirty Mistle Thrushes flying sough over my house yesterday..I would loved to have "made them" Fieldfares but they weren't!
steve45
steve45
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..flying south of course..!
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Oct 2019
10:02am, 1 Oct 2019
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I’ve seen several mistle thrush recently and have been desperately trying to ‘convert’ them into fieldfare
jacdaw
jacdaw
Oct 2019
10:37am, 1 Oct 2019
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I thought I was the only one with the wishful thinking fieldfares! It is unfair of the mistle thrushes to form small flocks in a deliberate attempt to confuse me.
Surelynot
Surelynot
Oct 2019
12:09pm, 1 Oct 2019
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A skein of geese last night as I set off for a run with the club. First I've seen. May have been pinkies but hard to tell as the light was just beginning to go.
flanker
flanker
Oct 2019
3:37pm, 1 Oct 2019
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DT interestingly we’ve been seeing what appears to have been flocks of fieldfare on the moors all summer. Pretty sure they weren’t :-) and that they were mistle thrushes, but never known them to flock before. Maybe they were juveniles, or is it common behaviour in this part of the world?
J2R
J2R
Oct 2019
8:21pm, 1 Oct 2019
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Which moors, flanker, and did you get a close view? Thinking ring ouzels might be a possibility, being an upland bird the size of a fieldfare which you see in little flocks (or at least, I have in the past on a few occasions).
Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Oct 2019
8:23pm, 1 Oct 2019
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Golden plover?

Pinkies today in Scotland :-)
jacdaw
jacdaw
Oct 2019
8:39pm, 1 Oct 2019
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There are always small groups of mistle thrushes on the moors round me, from about August. It took me years before I finally admitted they weren't very, very early fieldfare.

I mentioned this to some local rspb guys (from Geltsdale) and they just laughed out loud at the idea of fieldfare before October.

I've seen pictures of thousands of pinkies at lindisfarne nnr; I need to go over and have a look.
flanker
flanker
Oct 2019
9:53pm, 1 Oct 2019
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Definitely not ring ouzels - the lengths we've gone to find them we'd recognise them on our doorstep :-)

Golden Plover was what we guessed at first (don't tend to have bins when running!) but have got up close since then and they've always been mistle thrushes. It's been the last 2-3 months, so that fits jacdaw.

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