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Thrushes and Chats - The Redwing

First seen on Sunday 1st December 2019 at Wallington

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.

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. 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. 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.