Thousands of fieldfares, arriving from Scandinavia and Russia, have passed through Weardale over the last few weeks, gorging themselves with this year's heavy crop of hawthorn berries.
They have a methodical way of stripping off the haws, at an incredibly rapid rate.
First, the lunge ....
.... and then the grab ....
.... then a brief pause followed by little toss of the head to send the berries down into the gullet.
This one downed seven in under a minute
More about their feeding preferences in the Guardian Country Diary today
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