Redwings are winter visitors, and are also known as winter thrushes. Although at first glance Redwings look like a Song Thrush, they have a very pronounced stripe above the eye, and of course the red patch under the wing that gives them their name, you can see this in the photo below. You can see redwings just about anywhere at Croome.

Redwings have very similar feeding habits to the Fieldfare, and they generally feed and fly together. Where you see one there is a very good chance the other is there too. They seem to have a pattern of feeding through the winter. When they arrive they stay at the very tops of the trees for a while, moving from tree to tree as if they are finding out where everything is. You will get a view like the one below, looking up at them

Later in the season they switch to feeding on the berries in the trees. They delicately pluck the berries and toss them into their mouths. You can see a berry about to disappear in the photo below.

In late winter/early spring, when the berries have all been eaten, they move to the fields and meadows and become ground feeders, eating grubs and worms. They gather in large flocks with the Fieldfares and Song Thrushes, sometimes numbering in hundreds. The one below was foraging on the lawns near the East Entrance Gate