Can you identify this please?

Decos

Hi,

This is bound to be an easy one for you but can you tell me what type of bird this is? and if possible the sex. A cat killed it today in our garden.

Lots of birds around our house at the moment but the reason I ask is that im fairly sure there is a nest of young starlings in the corner of our roof and im wondering is this the mother.

Thanks

Cork boy 55

I think its a baby blackbird they are vulnerable to predators when they leave nest before they can fly fully. They often spend first few days out of nest walking and hopping around

Decos

Interesting. Thanks
I was just going through a bird book now and it does look a bit like the female blackbird picture in the book.

Cork boy 55

Decos wrote: »

Interesting. Thanks
I was just going through a bird book now and it does look a bit like the female blackbird picture in the book.

A mature male/female would have a yellow beak

The young have brown/dark beaks
and are more spotty




Mod edit: Possible copyright issue with one pic, so removed pic, and replaced it with a different pic of a young blackbird.

Decos

ah right, cheers. that last pic looks very like it