It is commonly held that fieldfares roost on the ground; yet we never
remember to have disturbed them when roosting in that way, but have
often done so in the woods, in which they had favourite parts. They
come to the chosen haunt on the brink of darkness, after the habit of
carrion crows, and they roost in companies apparently of twenty and
thirty on the older growths of underwood. At all times the fieldfares
are wide awake, and they never fail to take wing and utter their
throaty chuckle on the slightest provocation.
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