We have flocks of visiting Fieldfare in the orchard and luckily for customers they can currently be seen swooping across the green between trees from the tea room windows.
These wonderful birds, members of the Thrush family, visit us from Scandinavia each winter to feast upon our fallen apples. We're very lucky to see so many Fieldfare, Turdis pilaris, as they are an endangered bird being on the red list for UK conservation concerns which means that they are a species that require urgent conservation.
Fieldfare will stay in the orchard throughout the winter, as long as there are apples for them to eat, before returning to Scandinavia around April time.
Be sure to visit us soon so you don't miss out on this wonderful sight.
Open 10-4 daily
The Orchard Tea Room & Farm Shop
Redmoor Lane
Wisbech
Cambs
PE14 0RN
(First pic not ours, the other two are, credit https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:N_p_holmes)
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