The Winter Thrushes are here!!

Birdnuts

Just back in from a stroll with the dogs;) and got to hear the high pitched calls of the first Redwing/Fieldfare of the Autumn:cool:

A real sign that winter is not far off now, though I also spotted a late Wheater yesterday while enjoying the spring like weather:)

trebor28

have been waiting for these.

all the leaves have fallen off al the white thorns around me and all you can see is berries.
wont take them long to strip them!

Cardynal

Just had a small flock of Redwing fly over the garden , 1st of the year.

Rainbowsend

Haven't seen or heard any yet, but will keep an eye and ear out for them!

Kess73

Saw my first Fall/Winter redwing just outside Shannon airport this morning.

Birdnuts

Just back from a stroll - sounds like serious numbers of these are arriving tonight:cool:

donal2000

Birdnuts wrote: »

Just back from a stroll - sounds like serious numbers of these are arriving tonight:cool:

Does anybody have a sound clip of what they sound like passing overhead?

Lumi

Saw the first Redwing this morning on the west side of Galway City.
Made my day

LostCovey

donal2000 wrote: »

Does anybody have a sound clip of what they sound like passing overhead?

I don't think this forum allows mp3s to be posted (please tell me how to do it, if it is permitted!).

However, you can get a mix of Redwing flight calls here http://www.garden-birds.co.uk/birds/redwing.htm#Voice

Remember that the common flight call is the 'pseeeee' , and when thousands of migrating Redwings are going over, this is the one you will hear, repeatedly, nearly constantly.

I have heard the other 'chuckling' calls but mostly when birds were moving locally between fields.

Hoppe this helps.

LC

donal2000

LostCovey wrote: »

I don't think this forum allows mp3s to be posted (please tell me how to do it, if it is permitted!).

However, you can get a mix of Redwing flight calls here http://www.garden-birds.co.uk/birds/redwing.htm#Voice

Remember that the common flight call is the 'pseeeee' , and when thousands of migrating Redwings are going over, this is the one you will hear, repeatedly, nearly constantly.

I have heard the other 'chuckling' calls but mostly when birds were moving locally between fields.

Hoppe this helps.

LC

Perfect - thanks for the reply

We had lots of them last winter visiting the garden during the snow.

Birdnuts

There back!!! - tell-tale nocturnal calls overhead here since Sunday night which is to the day I heard them last year:cool:

Kess73

Birdnuts wrote: »

There back!!! - tell-tale nocturnal calls overhead here since Sunday night which is to the day I heard them last year:cool:

Have not seen one yet, but like you have heard them at night. My winter redpoll have started to trickle in as well over the past few days so I am expecting that trickle to become a rush of them in the coming weeks.

cameramonkey

Birdnuts wrote: »

There back!!! - tell-tale nocturnal calls overhead here since Sunday night which is to the day I heard them last year:cool:

what do they sound like?

V Bull

A lot of them up here in Kilbride, Wicklow also....

okfine

Wow amazing photograph right their^ very cool.

Birdnuts

cameramonkey wrote: »

what do they sound like?

A high pitched piping call - some times you will also hear some harsher magpie like notes

Half-cocked

If we get some hard weather, throw a few red apples out into the garden and you might get lucky and have a few Redwings and Fieldfares pay you a visit. These are from a couple of winters back when we had the heavy snows. While I'm not wishing for another winter like that, it was a great opportunity to see winter thrushes close up.

olly_mac

I had a gang of them in the garden earlier I must dust off the camera.

Kess73

Half-cocked wrote: »

If we get some hard weather, throw a few red apples out into the garden and you might get lucky and have a few Redwings and Fieldfares pay you a visit. These are from a couple of winters back when we had the heavy snows. While I'm not wishing for another winter like that, it was a great opportunity to see winter thrushes close up.

I have never seen as many of them as I did during the first of the two recent colder winters. They just seemed to drop into the area in huge numbers and you could not turn your head in any direction without spotting some.


Lovely pics btw.