Redwing watching

Redwing
Turdus iliacus

Flocks of Redwings like to spend the morning on the cricket square in the local playing fields. However, when the kids come out to play they sit in the trees at the end of our garden hoping the kids would bugger off.

But they don't want to make it too easy to take a nice photograph of them. If I get any closer they fly of in a disgruntled clucking and chattering group to another tree on the other side.

Redwings have a lovely melodious song (characteristic of most thrushes), but we never hear them sing in the UK. My first trip to Iceland in the spring I was enthralled by the Redwings singing in every scrap of foliage.