"Redwing breed in tiny numbers - perhaps only 20 pairs, or even fewer - in central and northern Scotland, so the vast majority of British birders only ever really think of the redwing as a winter visitor. The birds that choose to spend each winter in Scotland and Ireland tend to be of Icelandic origin, and these contrasted with the small flock of half-a-dozen birds that I had watched fly over-head, and indeed with most of the redwing across southern Britain, which would have come from as far away as Finland or Russia. "
Mike Dilger - My Garden and Other Animals [October] page 286/287