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Visted us today and stayed until the Blackbirds chased it away.
Picture taken at extreme magnification and through a rain spotted window.

i think its a mistle thrush

it's a beautiful thrush!

Lovely Picture   ;D

Beautiful.   :)

G x

looks more like a fieldfare, eric!!

Very similar from that angle, but I think Tony's right, you can just about make out a yellow beak.  Excellent photo.

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.

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.

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.

 Nice Thrush,,,,,, we don't get them here. ;-(((( qahtan

Lucky you! I reckon that it's a Mistle thrush as well.  :)

http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/m/mistlethrush/index.aspx

Beautiful markings on him. Good shot!

So is this any more help in id?

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

Yeah, not a fieldfare.  Does it sing?

Blimey - that took some debate - Song Thrush. :)

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

Another picture of same bird.

yep, deffo a thrush!! lovely phote BTW, eric!!