However, is it? My thanks to SOS https://www.sos.org.uk/ and SOS member Roger Jackson in Balcombe, an adjacent village, for realising that this bird is a Fieldfare https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/bird-and-wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/f/fieldfare/
Very many thanks Roger. I am delighted to be corrected on this ID.
Then it flew up into a large yew tree and stayed there for some minutes.
More info' on these glorious winter visitors at https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/bird-and-wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/r/redwing/
The RSPB says that they rarely visit gardens. It is pleasing then to see them here and not for the first time. The evolution of a formal garden to a nature reserve has been my goal for years. It is now explained in an illustrated talk at http://www.peterlovetttalks.co.uk/page19.html
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http://www.peterlovetttalks.co.uk/page17.html