song thrush

This is the 1st time I have seen this youngster visiting my plantpots and feeding tray,but,Charlie blackbird has decided that he is not welcome and keeps chasing him away.I did remove the dead leaves at the top of the pic,and the white markings ,but it interfered with the head plumage,so left...

Took this shot in sunny reletively mild weather, arctic conditions has reached here now, as it has in most of the country of course.

Song Thrush

Well Peeps, Its post and run from me this morning, I have another hospital appointment. Three from July for you today, see y'all later.

I make a bird cake made up of a mixture of various seeds, Suet, Flour , peanuts, Sultanas and any left over bread and biscuits. All the birds from miles around come to my feeding station

Not much going on here, still cold, so not sure if I will venture out today, only went out to the pub for a while yesterday afternoon, so no new piccies. Three from earlier in the year for you today. Enjoyed having this bird in the garden also.

One from this mornings estuary walk - quite rare on my patch.

Amazing to watch these birds just stuffing themselves with these yew tree berries.They always seem to swallow them so quickly ,never get them stuck in their throats. I have never taken as many thrush shots as I have during this last couple of weeks,it has been amazing watching the different...

I am hoping he is a Song Thrush and not Mistle. Again,taken in the same tree,I cropped out the blue sky,and just left the trunk of the tree,with the sun light reflecting through onto the trunk,shows the texture of the bark of this very old yew tree.

I really do like this type of shot,no cloning of unwanted twigs etc,she has her own little canopy of yew leaves and berries. Many thanks to all who commented on the Moorhen photos.