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Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris)
From the “nature in front of my doorstep” category.
Today, despite unfavourable weather with cold rain and sleet, I went for a little walk to a patch of meadows and light woodland 5 minutes away from my home in the city of Munich. Basically I was trying to familiarise myself with handling my 2X extender and using a monopod “in the field”.
This robust member of the Thrush family is what I ended up with. It was happily pulling out one earthworm after the other from the soaked earth.
German name: Wacholderdrossel
The Fieldfare is a member of the thrush family Turdidae. It breeds in woodland and scrub in northern Europe and Asia. It is strongly migratory, with many northern birds moving south during the winter. It is a very rare breeder in Great Britain and Ireland, but winters in large numbers in these countries.
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