Stephen Moss on one of the most beautiful winter visitors, the fieldfare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birdwatch: Black redstart] Reference

He said he had never forgotten how the body of the fieldfare felt in his hand: the memory had always haunted him.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

The chack of the first fieldfare of the winter came close behind the last swallow of the summer, and we were in the thick of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

They noticed a fieldfare, half-frozen, and the father took up a stone idly and threw it at the bird, possibly not meaning to hit it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

The fieldfare fell dead, and the child Thomas picked it up and it was as light as a feather, all skin and bone, practically starved.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

The collyrion (or fieldfare) feeds on the same food as the owsel; is of the same size as the above mentioned birds; and is trapped usually in the winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

• Large flocks of chaffinch with some bramblings in woodland, abundant redwing and fieldfare in hawthorn hedges, and rare waxwings appearing in unusually high numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [British wildlife benefits from return to 'traditional' seasonal weather] Reference

The former, called by the Chilenos "el Turco," is as large as a fieldfare, to which bird it has some alliance; but its legs are much longer, tail shorter, and beak stronger: its colour is a reddish brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

Now as to the fieldfare, Linnaeus, in his "Fauna Suecica," says of it, that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1] Reference

Frozen Moment evokes a painting - a delicate Japanese water-colour of a fieldfare hovering over blossoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

Tenant, when a boy, mistaken? did he not find a missel-thrush's nest, and take it for the nest of a fieldfare?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1] Reference

This morning I found three redwing heads and one of a fieldfare below the tower, as well as a common snipe's beak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum Blogs] Reference

The marsh warbler, Arctic skua, fieldfare, turtle dove and golder oriole have seen the worse decline in the last decade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news] Reference

In the last decade Britain has suffered massive declines in many garden and farmland birds including the turtle dove and fieldfare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news] Reference

His image of a fieldfare, The Frozen Moment, was judged to be the most memorable of all the pictures by photographers aged 17 or under.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News - Home] Reference

The bitter north wind drives even the wild fieldfare to the berries in the garden hedge; so it drives stray human creatures to the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference

The moderns have seldom thought of raising game artificially; among the Romans, artificial raising was confined to the hare and fieldfare.    From Wordnik.com.  [System der volkswirthschaft. English] Reference

A great fieldfare rises, like a lesser pigeon; fieldfares often haunt the verge of woods, while the redwing thrushes go out into the meadows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Fields] Reference

On the southern side of London, at least in the districts I am best acquainted with, there was hardly a fieldfare or redwing to be seen for weeks and even months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature Near London] Reference

I was the only person left outdoors, but was determined to capture the feel of the day, while showing the character of the fieldfare, often hovering to pick berries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Now they were making their homes in Ireland, as were their former neighbours on Russia's arid summer plains, redwing and fieldfare by the thousand, foraging across the Irish pastures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Flocks of crazy, distracted birds flew close by in great numbers, for the most part finches and larks, with here and there a fieldfare or two, their breasts and underwings buff colour.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers] Reference

There are threads of brilliant scarlet upon the hazel in February, though the gloom of winter lingers and the 'Shuck -- a-- sheck!' of the fieldfare fleeing before the snow sounds overhead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amateur Poacher] Reference

The survey also revealed that many populations, such as the redwing and the fieldfare, shifted west across Britain to avoid the worst of the cold, which has affected the east over recent months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Thus two sparrows are one starling, two starlings are one fieldfare, two fieldfares one hen, two hens one goose, two geese one lamb, two lambs one kid, two kids one goat, two goats one cow, and so forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ideal Commonwealths] Reference

The former, called by the Chilenos “el Turco, ” is as large as a fieldfare, to which bird it has some alliance; but its legs are much longer, tail shorter, and beak stronger: its colour is a reddish brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XII] Reference

The fieldfare come in June.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference

And I heard the fieldfare trilling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes] Reference

The fieldfare framed her lowly nest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady of the Lake] Reference

And the fieldfare answered chirping: 70.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes] Reference

And where the fieldfare followed in the rear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excursions] Reference

104. = fieldfare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady of the Lake] Reference

The fieldfare come in June ”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Remains of John Clare]