Author Topic: Thrush (Read 2603 times)

zwartbles · « **on:** January 26, 2018, 04:35:19 pm »

Don't know if this chap is local or passing through. Used to see loads when we were younger but very few now. Nice contrasting plumage, quite often yellowy/brown.
Do click on this one to see the detail

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Fleecewife · « **Reply #1 on:** January 26, 2018, 07:09:13 pm »

So that's how their spots are made

amazing In the 22 years we've been in this part of Scotland, there have been only 3 years when we have seen thrushes (one of them last year) whereas where I grew up in East Anglia we had a plentiful supply. I wish we had more here - there are plenty of snails for them to open up

Excellent photo

honeyend · « **Reply #2 on:** January 29, 2018, 12:31:51 am »

We have flocks of fieldfares come through. http://www.garden-birds.co.uk/birds/fieldfare.htm
When I first saw them I thought the were thrushes. They arrive about the end of October and clear all the rotting fallen apples, which are in our back garden and they seem to disappear but I saw a flock in a the paddock the other week. We get the odd thrush but more blackbirds.
I know not everyone likes starlings, but I love them. In the summer a brood sat in the apple tree while mum flew backward and forwards to the bird feeder. I love how their plumage changes.

Foobar · « **Reply #3 on:** February 19, 2018, 11:31:10 am »

We have at least one pair, they are regulars in our garden. Not sure if they are mistle or song, but they do sing very nicely sitting in the apple trees.