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Produce => Wildlife forum => Topic started by: Palustris on November 07, 2009, 17:53:34

Title: ?Thrush?
Post by: Palustris on November 07, 2009, 17:53:34: Visted us today and stayed until the Blackbirds chased it away.
Picture taken at extreme magnification and through a rain spotted window.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww32/Owdboggy/thrush1.jpg)
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Post by: thifasmom on November 07, 2009, 17:57:30: i think its a mistle thrush
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Post by: reddyreddy on November 07, 2009, 17:58:32: it's a beautiful thrush!
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Post by: betula on November 07, 2009, 18:12:47: Lovely Picture ;D
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Post by: Georgie on November 07, 2009, 18:34:45: Beautiful. :)

G x
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Post by: tonybloke on November 07, 2009, 19:03:52: looks more like a fieldfare, eric!!
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Post by: Unwashed on November 07, 2009, 19:22:55: Very similar from that angle, but I think Tony's right, you can just about make out a yellow beak. Excellent photo.
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Post by: Robert_Brenchley on November 07, 2009, 19:39:06: It's an awkward angle, but I'll plump for mistle thrush. The cheeks aren't grey enough for fieldfare. Are you in the town or the country? I used to see flocks of mixed redwing and fieldfare all over the place in Cornwall during the winter, but in central Birmingham I only see redwings.
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Post by: naff on November 07, 2009, 19:52:36: I would say Redwing, beak has a yelow/pink base with a dark tip,prominent white eye stripe,dark spot before the eye and scaling it from the leaves is smaller than a Song Thrush. My guess is that it,s this years immature. It does,nt have the the pink/brown breast of a Fieldfare nor the grey cheeks. Blackbirds woul leave a Mistle Thrush alone but would chase the much smaller Redwing.
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Post by: Palustris on November 07, 2009, 20:25:04: Never knowingly seen Redwings here and the Fieldfares do not normally appear until much later in the season and usually in large flocks. This singleton bird has been around for most of the later Summer, but only came within camera range today. Would not argue though, not a Bird expert by any stretch of the imagination.
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Post by: qahtan on November 07, 2009, 21:02:31: Nice Thrush,,,,,, we don't get them here. ;-(((( qahtan
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Post by: Flighty on November 07, 2009, 21:11:06: Lucky you! I reckon that it's a Mistle thrush as well. :)

http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/m/mistlethrush/index.aspx
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Post by: GrannieAnnie on November 07, 2009, 21:38:12: Beautiful markings on him. Good shot!
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Post by: Palustris on November 08, 2009, 13:04:39: So is this any more help in id?
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww32/Owdboggy/thrush3.jpg)
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Post by: Flighty on November 08, 2009, 13:15:43: I've changed my mind and now think that it's a Song thrush as it seems to have nut-brown, rather than grey-brown, upperparts!

http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/s/songthrush/index.aspx
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Post by: Unwashed on November 08, 2009, 13:22:43: Yeah, not a fieldfare. Does it sing?
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Post by: redimp on November 08, 2009, 23:04:34: Blimey - that took some debate - Song Thrush. :)
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Post by: valmarg on November 10, 2009, 22:41:53: I agree RC - Turdus phillomelos. Don't mean to be too much of a smart ass RC, but it's one of the few birds I know the latin name of.

The only reason I know the name is that the Turdus family (including Turdus merula aka blackbird) are the sh*ts that eat our soft fruit in summer ;D ;D ;D

valmarg
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Post by: Palustris on November 18, 2009, 12:30:04: Another picture of same bird.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww32/Owdboggy/thrushface.jpg)
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Post by: tonybloke on November 19, 2009, 11:40:45: yep, deffo a thrush!! lovely phote BTW, eric!!
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Post by: gwynnethmary on November 29, 2009, 18:18:32: beautiful!