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We've been inundated with reports of unusual garden visitors since the snow arrived. The ice, snow and general wintry weather that has finally arrived has covered much of the countryside making many natural food resources such as worms and seed on the ground impossible to reach. So what is a hungry...

Want Fieldfares? Get a Cotoneaster. Also good for Redwings and Waxwings. This shot is just 5 minutes old. JBNTS

With an icy blast from the north and east we have seen a steady increase in Redwing numbers this week with upwards of 60 or so around the woodland for much of the day. There are not that many berries left on the hawthorns which may become a problem but they have already been investigating the Ivy which...

This fieldfare loves the fallen apples in our garden

This fieldfare loves the fallen apples in our garden 22nd Jan 2012

Hello All, A few photos from late December & early January. Over 3,000 Brent Geese on the Island at the moment and normally some are present at Elmley. Many Common Buzzards about. Great Views around the reserve Fieldfare A collection of Waders. Photo below...

Happy New Year everyone! We hope you had a fantastic holiday – we certainly did with lots of wildlife to see around the reserve. Plenty of our regular birds have been seen including long tailed tits , little owl , redwing , fieldfare , reed bunting , gadwall , teal and wigeon and Perry Lane...

Well, here we are in 2012 and returning to Elmley after my Christmas break, I very much had a sense of deja vu, although on this occasion it wasn't just the RSPB website that I couldn't access - I couldn't connect to the internet at all! We traced the glitch to a faulty dongle and having...

PHOTODIARY - end of November 2011 Winter evening after a stormy day, Solway Estuary 24th November. A midday high tide with a strong gusty wind. At 11.30pm flocks of Oystercatcher, Teal, Wigeon, Mallard and Shoveler with 15 Pintail started to fly west along the, by now, flooding marsh. At...

With all the talk on the forum about Fieldfares (and the fact that at the moment there are very few around!) I thought I would post this cracking shot of a single bird in the Cordite on Sunday morning taken by Julie Dent. I am sure that if we ever get any proper winter weather with a bit of easterly...

Anticipation is mounting for the impending arrival of a benevolent elf from Lapland. But as far as I'm concerned, he's been beaten to the UK by a number of his fellow compatriots! RSPB are now managing a number of fields on the Harty Marshes at the east end of the Isle of Sheppey. We have acquired...

That's a fieldfare making that noise in the title. Hi everyone, Look out for groups of fieldfares in the hedges around Saltholme. You might also see them flying in straggling groups too. I was mooching around the wildlife garden today and a group of about 15 chak, chakked here, there and everywhere...

The trees and hedgerows of Perry Lane are crammed with redwings and fieldfare feeding, a water pipit appears to have taken up residence in the reedbeds and the starlings are still treating us to spectacular displays – winter is well and truly here. It’s impossible to visit Newport Wetlands...

Just noticed another bird in the 1st pic, looks like a starling just right of centre at the top of the pic. Did you by any chance hear any calls at the time? Have a listen here and see if this is familiar. I would be inclined to agree with those who have suggested fieldfare as the shape looks right...

This Field Fare over winters in my garden ever year (this is it's third winter), it lives in the Bramley Apple Tree and lives off the fallers all winter. It's all on it's own and is very defensive over it's territory, seeing off the local blackbird daily.

Voting is now over for this poll, thank you for all of your votes and comments! The waxwing came out as a conclusive winner, lets hope that all of your wishes come true and they turn up in gardens. Try to maximise your chances by providing sliced apples and pears on tree branches in your garden. ...

Baines I know we have had a lot of thrushes visiting the UK this winter, but I was still surprised to see 13 Fieldfare in a single flock. What a great sight. They were happily feeding in a feild by the River Douglas, North West Lancs. Edenbridge Kent We have a large cotoneaster tree which...

One of a large flock of Fieldfare I saw feeding on Hawthorn berries in Ackworth.

One of a large flock of Fieldfare I saw in hawthorn trees in Ackworth.

We had the starlings, now we've got the fieldfares. Beautiful! Saltholme 12/12/10

I love fieldfares. Not just the gorgeous plumage but because they're so fierce. I once saw a flock scramble to take on a Ural Owl in Finland. Fieldfare Fighter Patrol. The owl didn't hang about! Saltholme 12/12/10

Hello, this is my first posting despite visiting Elmley for a few years. We had yet another great visit to Elmley and Capel Fleet last Sunday and was spoilt with some great sightings in and from the orchard. We also had some friendly advice from fellow watchers, which always makes the day even more...

Hi George and welcome to the RSPB Community. These days Nuthatches and Goldcrests are quite common city birds. They wander quite a bit during Autumnal foraging so can turn up whereever there is potential food or shelter. I seem to get a Nuthatch about every five years in my Cotswold garden though...

I visited Fowlmere on Saturday morning and saw a few things that I would regard as being in categories 2 and 3 of rarity/excitement for Fowlmere. If things like woodpigeons, long-tailed, great, blue tits, chaffinches, moorhens and mallards are in category 1, then certainly category 2 birds (bullfinch...

Yo Kezmo Mistle Thrush at the top, and it's in the bottom photo too. The others are Fieldfares. JBNTS

This delightful member of the thrush family turned up for the first time during the snowy weeks of January 2010 and has appeared to become a resident for now as I see him each day. He has yet to venture on to the feeder table, but flits around in the mature hawthorn hedge keeping an eye on events below...

We have a Fieldfare in our garden which came with the recent snow. It is feeding on apples which we saved from the apple tree, and scatter in the garden. It is very fond of chasing the blackbirds away!