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Old 18-12-2010, 09:55 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Redwings.

On Dec 18, 3:08*am, David Rance
wrote:
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 *Pete wrote:

"Sacha" wrote in message
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The flocks of Redwings and Fieldfares from N. Europe are one of
winter's *great delights.


I'm really bad at bird id but what else do these like to eat, apart
from apples? *I don't think we've ever seen them here. *Thrushes of
any kind seem scarce, unortunately.
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In the case of Fieldfares, it is the hawthorn berries that they are after.