Fieldfare
Fieldfare are Winter visitors to Yorkshire, and they can be seen in trees and shrubs eating berries, and searching for invertebrates on open fields.
Fieldfare are Winter visitors to Yorkshire, and they can be seen in trees and shrubs eating berries, and searching for invertebrates on open fields.
Fieldfare are thrushes. Their Latin name is Turdus pilaris.
Collins Bird Guide shows fieldfare breeding in Scandinavia and Russia, resident all year round in eastern France, Germany and eastern Europe, and Winter visitor to Britain, Ireland, western France, Spain, Portugal, the Balkans, Greece and north Africa.
Fieldfare are seen in large flocks, in trees and bushes eating berries, and in open fields searching or invertebrates.
Their clucking sounds to my ear a little like a blackbird's alarm call.
Grey head and rump, red-brown back, and spotted breast with what Collins Bird Guide calls a rusty yellow tinge.
My photos on this page are of fieldfare in hawthorn trees close to the Ouse, near Overton, north of York. I'm sure they are present in lots of other places in Yorkshire.