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Hello folks. Over the last 2 years my health has declined and from being an active tradesman I've gone to to being pretty much housebound now.

My garden has become a source of pleasure and the visiting birds as well. I've never been a bird watcher and am pretty much a novice but learning quickly. I live in a housing estate, but only half a mile from farmland.
I've filled the garden with different feeders and different feeds and am pleased to say that a growing variety of birds are showing up.

Today I saw one that I didn't recognise and cannot find in the books. It was the size of a starling but brown with a white throat. Is this a juvenile starling? I can't find a picture of one that matches.

Cheers, Graham
 
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Hi Graham and a warm welcome from me too.

Young Starlings do have a small whitish patch under their bill, so it could well be one. You can see more pictures of them on out Opus article here. And if you scroll to the bottom of that article, you will see a link to look at more images in the Gallery.

I hope you enjoy your time here with us.
 
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Hi Delia, thanks for the links. I reckon juvenile Starling but only 80% convinced. Can you think of anything else it might have been so I look up pictures? I did take some but they're on the camera and I've lost the USB lead, so until I find it can't upload them. They're fuzzy anyway.
 
Hi again Graham. I'm afraid 'brown with a white throat' isn't quite enough for me to go on.

What was it's bill like (colour, size, thick, thin). Colour of legs. What sort of brown? (chocolate, chestnut, greyish), spotted or plain. Did it walk/run or hop?

Actually I can't really think of anything else, but Starling LOL, apart from Blackbird, but they look like a bit like the females.

Thinking, does your computer not have a card slot? It's surprising what the guys in the ID forum can interpret from the poorest of images LOL.

You asked where we're based... the Admin office is in England, but as KC said, we have members and Moderators in different parts of the world.
 
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