The Song Thrush
One type of bird that seems to love spending some time in our garden every day is the Song Thrush. We have no cats and I have never seen any other cat visiting so the birds must feel relatively safe. This thrush and a number of others (pictured below therefore spend a lot of the day hopping around from the hedge to the fence and through the grass.
They seem to be especially fond of those wet mornings when all the slugs and worms come out.
It took some time to identify whether all these visitors were Song Thrushes or Mistle Thrushes or a mixture of both, as we have a number of thrushes who come to the garden and they each appear different. But on closer inspection, I think they are all just different stages of juvenile and adult / male and female song thrushes.
One guidebook had a good spot the difference guide which said that song thrushes are smaller and have upside down V shaped spots. They also have a thin light line on the end row of their feathers, whereas the mistle thrush has white and brown feathers on the outside and less regular spots.
RSPB Illustration
They seem to be especially fond of those wet mornings when all the slugs and worms come out.
It took some time to identify whether all these visitors were Song Thrushes or Mistle Thrushes or a mixture of both, as we have a number of thrushes who come to the garden and they each appear different. But on closer inspection, I think they are all just different stages of juvenile and adult / male and female song thrushes.
One guidebook had a good spot the difference guide which said that song thrushes are smaller and have upside down V shaped spots. They also have a thin light line on the end row of their feathers, whereas the mistle thrush has white and brown feathers on the outside and less regular spots.
RSPB Illustration
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