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Is this a song thrush?

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  • BijdezeeBijdezee Posts: 1,484
    edited June 2020
    You would need a really good photo that is very well focused to tell if it were a song thrush or a mistle thrush,  but the mistle thrush is larger and more greyish brown whilst the song thrush has a white area on the cheek.

    I agree with others that this is a young blackbird. 
  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543
    edited June 2020
    Mokles said:
    Ah. I didn't realise that the blackbird is a thrush. You learn something new everyday. :)
    Maybe we ought to call it a Blackthrush instead!  :)
    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • MoklesMokles Posts: 30
    :)
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    edited June 2020
    I always know whether it's a song or a mistle. 
    We don't get song thrushes here  ;)

    Lovely photo too  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    madpenguin said:
    Mokles said:
    Ah. I didn't realise that the blackbird is a thrush. You learn something new everyday. :)
    Maybe we ought to call it a Blackthrush instead!  :)
    I've often thought that would be a better name.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    wild edges said:
    madpenguin said:
    Mokles said:
    Ah. I didn't realise that the blackbird is a thrush. You learn something new everyday. :)
    Maybe we ought to call it a Blackthrush instead!  :)
    I've often thought that would be a better name.

    Except the females aren’t black ... 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I was surprised to discover that someone I knew very well, decades ago, didn't know that the bird he saw in his garden was a female blackie @Dovefromabove. He assumed they were both black. He had lived and worked outdoors all his life, surrounded by wildlife.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I’ve come across that quite a bit @Fairygirl ... also a number of people who think red-breasted robins are all male ... goodness knows where they think the females are?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Dovefromabove said:
    I’ve come across that quite a bit @Fairygirl ... also a number of people who think red-breasted robins are all male ... goodness knows where they think the females are?
     :D 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497

    Dovefromabove said:
    wild edges said:
    madpenguin said:
    Mokles said:
    Ah. I didn't realise that the blackbird is a thrush. You learn something new everyday. :)
    Maybe we ought to call it a Blackthrush instead!  :)
    I've often thought that would be a better name.

    Except the females aren’t black ... 😉 
    They never complained when they were called blackbirds though :p

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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