Fieldfares? In _August_? I'd expect them in October(ish) not now.
Saw what looked very like two fieldfares this morning whilst out for a pootle on my bike. Definitely weren't thrushes or juvenile starlings. Anyone know of a.n.other bird that resembles a fieldfare that is more likely to be seen in August?
In other news. At least twelve long-tailed tits on the fat-ball feeder in the garden yesterday afternoon. This is the first year they've been a near constant presence. In previous years they were only, infrequent, winter visitors.
Some years ago Mrs. Wow and I were on tour in Germany with Auntie Helen. It was June and we were on the Rhine. We stopped one afternoon for tea and cake (!) and a thrush-like bird approached and was clearly after our cake crumbs. I thought it looked like a fieldfare but, as you have observed, fieldfares are winter visitors.
Except they are not! In that part of Germany they are there all the year round! We are accustomed in this country to seeing the fieldfares that migrate from Siberia and are very wary of humans. This German one was as tame as a robin - which seem to be rather uncommon on the continent and are therefore wary of humans! The black redstart seems to occupy the same niche in some places I have been.
I wonder whether you are observing some climate-change related behaviour pattern adaptation. In other news, Jan and I watched a pair of house martins flying up and down Westcliff sea front on 20th November 1976.