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Fat little thing, bit bigger than a blackbird (I know that as the blackbird kept trying to chase it off), eating a windfall apple on the lawn.
Sort of greyish colour, very slightly mottled chest, very distinctive light-coloured band around the neck. Our little book of garden birds and the RSPB bird ID site are coming up blank...
Norwegian blue.
Beautiful plumage.
It was on its feet though, Norwegian Blues perch on their backs.
Fieldfare?
Sort of greyish colour, very slightly mottled chest, very distinctive light-coloured band around the neck.
Theresa May?
Nope, not Fieldfare. Whole head and body was the same colour, apart from the very feint chest markings and the neck band
Albino fieldfare? 😉
ring ouzel
Baby robin.
Tried the RSPB Idenify A Bird guide?
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/identify-a-bird/
Not a ring ouzel - looking at a pic they're too dark, and the neck ring was thin and all the way round, like a necklace.
Not a baby robin, cos if it was I'd have killed it.
Yep, tried the RSPB guide, no joy
Albatross?
What flavour was it?
cassowary ?
What flavour was it?
Tasted like chicken. It wasn't a chicken though
cassowary
Too small.
Redwing?
Mistle thrush ?
Redwings and Fieldfare like to fight the Blackbirds for apples
cassowary
Too small
??
Jay
Mistle thrush?
Boobies?
Sounds like a mistle thrush to be honest, as vazaha suggests.
or more probably a parotias
or astrapias
Tit.
Mistle thrush - no neck band, too mottled on the chest
Redwing - no red on it at all.
Jay - no blue on it, no head markings
Mistle thrush wearing a cravat?
Lesser spotted bassoontit.
Thrunge Warbler
Collared Dove perhaps? mottling on the chest due to ruffled feathers (possibly immature bird)
W**kpuffin?
I (and she) wondered about Collared Dove, as it was a pigeon-y kind of colour, but on the dove the collar is dark and on the back of the neck. This was a light ring all the way round, like a necklace.
W**kpuffin
Alright, I'm only asking, jeez.
I like this one. It's called a Killdeer. Cos it cos kills deer I expect
Careful, Perchy, teh modz don't like that word. I dun got a warning.
Walkpuffin innit.
Coz' it is walkin'.....
Dunno what you thought it was? Dirty boy!
Anyone suggested a Ring Ouzel yet?
Anyone suggested a Ring Ouzel yet?
Yes. No.
I still want a killdeer. I shall love it and pet it and keep it warm.
I shall love it and pet it and keep it warm.
😮 I shall call the RSPCA!
I shall call the RSPCA!
Who will tell you to do one and suggest that you might try the RSPB instead.
Edit: No they won't. It's the other way round. My bad.
You should call him George.
Lappet-faced Worrier. 100%.
This time of year - especially with a large hurricane in the Atlantic - maybe it's a blow in?
Try a proper twitcher site like https://www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/RealData/dailysummary.asp and look what's knocking around.
George the deerkill. 😀
Pterodactyl?