Fieldfare foraging for food in the mud next to Akerselva, Oslo.

Fieldfares are omnivores, eating primarily worms, insects, and spiders during summer, and berries and fruit during winter. In this spot several black birds, fieldfares, and wood pigeons were foraging in the dirt, persumably looking for worms.

The fieldfare is a small bird, but with its 80-130gr amongst the largest of the thush family in Norway, that lays around 5-6 eggs per clutch. The eggs are incubated for around two weeks. Around two weeks after hatching the young start to fledge, and both parents continue their feeding duties until the chicks are around a month old.

I photographed this fieldfare in July 2024, by the Akerselva river in Grünerløkka, Oslo.

Fieldfare chicks fledge roughly two weeks after hatching, and the parents continue feeding them until they're around a month old. This one was already exploring the world outside the nest, but was also still being fed, so I assume they were between 2 weeks and a month old when I took this picture.