DAS1965
Sunday 19th June 2005, 16:54
Hi folks, |=)|
Having just moved home to somewhere with a much bigger garden we have only just, in the last few months, really begun to appreciate birdwatching.
My camera is working overtime!
We are also totally stumped at identifying one common bird in our garden. It's probably obvious but we've got the Kingfisher Guide and the BTO guide and we can't find it in either.
I'll post a pic in due course but in the meantime to see if you can come up with anything:
It's an aggressive little thing on the bird table protecting food at all costs. Like a starling it will happily battle its own kind away from the table. It is similar in height to a juvenile Starling but it isn't one. It is slimmer than a young starling although it does arrive when Starlings are present. It tends to arrive in groups of 1-5. Colouring is similar the body of a house sparrow and it has what I would describe as a female-blackbird-like beak. It is quite happy squeezing through the holes on a caged feeder.
It's like making your first post with some kind of riddle to test everybody.
Any ideas?
Dave and Tracey
Having just moved home to somewhere with a much bigger garden we have only just, in the last few months, really begun to appreciate birdwatching.
My camera is working overtime!
We are also totally stumped at identifying one common bird in our garden. It's probably obvious but we've got the Kingfisher Guide and the BTO guide and we can't find it in either.
I'll post a pic in due course but in the meantime to see if you can come up with anything:
It's an aggressive little thing on the bird table protecting food at all costs. Like a starling it will happily battle its own kind away from the table. It is similar in height to a juvenile Starling but it isn't one. It is slimmer than a young starling although it does arrive when Starlings are present. It tends to arrive in groups of 1-5. Colouring is similar the body of a house sparrow and it has what I would describe as a female-blackbird-like beak. It is quite happy squeezing through the holes on a caged feeder.
It's like making your first post with some kind of riddle to test everybody.
Any ideas?
Dave and Tracey