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Some pictures I took recently
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Another mixed bag....
Bullfinch (female) by carl cotter, on Flickr
Robin by carl cotter, on Flickr
Curlew by carl cotter, on Flickr0 -
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Its not a dunnock anyway. How big is it?
Could be a meadow pippit.
Or if its bigger a some thrush.
On the phone here so could be way out0 -
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Maybe a bit smaller than the bullfinch.It looked too small to be a thrush.Location was at the edge of a pond in Bushy Park.
Judging the size of a bird can be very difficult as the birds plumage makes up a large amount of the visual "mass". In cold weather they can fluff up feathers making them look bigger - or slimmer if the feathers smoothed down. Also light conditions can affect the size perception of a bird.
Here's my thinking as to why its a Song Thrush:
The bill shape (long and thin) of the bird in the picture rules out the Crows, Finches, Birds of Prey and the "water" birds (ducks, geese). Also, note the yellow stripe on the lower mandible of this bird. The underparts are white with black spotting, with a faint yellowish wash to the upperparts. This rules out the warblers and tits as bird families to look at, leaving only the Thrushes as likely candidates.
From this large group we can immediately rule out Wren, Robin, Stonechat and Wheatear from the underpart colouring. Dunnock can also be ruled out as it has solid grey underparts.
This leaves Blackbird, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Redwing and Fieldfare in the Thrush group. Redwing and Fieldfare can be ruled as the bird in the picture doesn't have a prominent supercilium ("eyebrow") or a grey head. Now here's where its gets trickier. Female and immature Blackbirds can look quite similar to the bird in question, but the bill colouring in Blackbirds is almost always uniform black or yellow (they never have that pale bar on the lower mandible).
Separating Mistle and Song Thrushes can be quite tricky, but the shape of the spots on the underparts is a good ID feature. They are round in Mistle Thrush and arrow-shaped in Song Thrush. The bird in the picture has arrow-shaped spots leaving Song Thrush as the only option.
Sorry for the long post, but hopefully there is some useful info there
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This is what could be described as lazy photography,taken through the kitchen window. There was 70+ goldenfinches in the garden today.
That's fantastic bishop! Some spectacle and photo op! Any chance a few photographers can organise a field trip to your back garden!?
:) Do you not get other birds crashing the party? 0 -
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That's fantastic bishop! Some spectacle and photo op! Any chance a few photographers can organise a field trip to your back garden!?:) Do you not get other birds crashing the party?
Its the front garden, you could park at the gate ,you wouldnt have to get out of the car:). There are quiet a few other birds about at the moment.One siskin, three red polls.lots of chaffinchs,sparrows by the dozen, great, coal, and blue tits and a few others from time to time.0
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