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Its like a big tit, (quiet at the back!)
Jet black beak, head and neck dark brown elsewhere.
What is it?
Louise?
Baby Robin.
What's the beak like? Long and thin?
Fly catcher of some variety?
Juvenile Blackbird
Nah it's no blackbird.
It's rapid to the feeder and away hard to see the beak in detail..
In the UK?
Could be a Reed Bunting. Where in the country are you?
100% a Roller Bird from that description.
Is it 29 or 27.5?
Marsh or Willow Tit
Young Bullfinch? House Sparrow? Pigeon?
Ring Ouzel?
Lady Bullfinch?
Beaky McBeak-Face.
What's it eating?
Your :-
Seeds
Bread
Fat balls
Other birds
Baby (Juvenile) Great Tit
Possibly a Blackcap.
From my book what I inherited off my auntie, there are only 3 possibilities from the poorly punctuated description
Young blackbird
House sparrow
or Reed bunting
Possibly a Blackcap.
That was my first thought too. Either that or a sparrow with a balaclava
What’s it eating?
Your :-
Seed
Fat balls
I say, steady on!
Baby pterodactyl ?
Another vote for reed bunting.
Does it have white outside edges on its tail?
Manx Shearwater, probably not but amazing birds.
It’s got to be an AM9, that seems to be the answer in every thread,
Sorry about the punctuation. I was driving..
So, its not a Reed Bunting. Nor is it a Blackcap. It's much too dark for that.
I live in Milngavie, a suburb on the edge of moorland near that Glasgow.
I've been lucky enough to have a Greater Spotted Woodpecker on the feeders this year so a rare visitor isn't unlikely.
It's not a Bull Finch either.
It's very dark in colour and slight of build, might be a Cowbird.
I'm trying to get a picture to settle it.
Sounds like a sparrow
Are you sure it's a bird?
Blue footed boobie.
Great Spotted Woodpeckers are common visitors to feeders. We’ve a fair number of blackcaps around here and not seen them on the feeders.
Can’t think of anything obvious from your description.
Redstart / black redstart??
do they cassowaries up there ?
Cowbird would be very unusual in the UK, especially in September; and it has a brown head and black body, not vice versa as seen. Could it be a starling (but a starlings bill is too long if the bird you've seen looks like a tit)?
Ill get a picture of it...
I agree the probability of it being a Cowbird is minimal. It's not a Starling.😀
Touching on a poster above. Greater Spotted Woodpeckers are not popular in my neck of the woods, indeed it's the first time I've seen one in my life.
I've heard them plenty mark you.
I've only ever seen a Jay once in my life too.
I'm no twitcher but I know what I'm seeing is rare..
I went bird watching with sinead o'connor once.
We saw 7 owls and 15 jays.
Maybe Great Spotted Woodpeckers are less common oop North. Granted I live in woodlands with a lot of birds. Love seeing them on the feeder but we get them on an almost daily basis.
#Nobeer
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It’s grand that you’re noting interesting birds in your garden, and don’t want to put a dampener on it, but I’d say you’re just on the wonderful upward curve of “holy **** theirs loads of birds!!!”. It will probably turn out to be something common, but special because it’s there in your garden. You start to notice them and then you get your eye in over the years, they’ve been there all along you just never saw them. My neighbour is convinced she’s never seen a great spotted woodpecker, I know that Mr Woodie’s in my garden every day, I hear him every day and see him and his girl most days. They bred this year and 3 of them were flying about. Welcome to birding.
Edit: I have no frikkin idea what you’re describing from your OP and I’m pretty good at this. Get yourself an rspb bird book and tuck in.
Was it carrying a coconut?
For sure it's an Elephant.
Fills many of the criteria 😕
The elephant is a dainty bird,
It flits from bough to bough.
It makes its nest in a Rhubarb tree,
And whistles like a cow.
In spite of what adults may say,
The elephant is rare,
So when you see a rhubarb tree,
You really must take care.
Do not disturb the Elephant,
Its husband or its child!
Remember that the elephant
cannot be tamed; It's wild!
So when you see an Elephant
Up in its Rhubarb tree,
Do not attempt to shoot it down
To steal its ivory.
Instead, respect the Elephant,
And let it grow and thrive;
It just might leave its tusks for you
when it's no longer alive.
The Elephant is a dainty bird
Who really needs a friend,
That's what we should think about
instead of its untimely end.
#Nobeer.... Quality!
STW is amazing - yes, this thread has a mixture of serious and non-serious replies, but imagine the response to asking about mtb tyres on a birding forum!
Coal tit?
It's not Steven Segal cos there'd be no fat balls left with that fat bastard around.
I went bird watching with sinead o’connor once.
We saw 7 owls and 15 jays.
Was that before or since you took your dove away from her?