Bird ID needed for small bird in rural Somerset, UK (1 Viewer)

[Somerchick]

This bird was filmed feasting on a crab apple tree on 17th January 2024. I have not been able to identify it so help would be gratefully accepted. Thank you.

 

[Butty]

Welcome to BF.
Fieldfare. A species of thrush.
They look small for crab apples - maybe the bigger ones have already fallen off...

 

[Kits]

Welcome to Birdforum.

You can find out more about fieldfares here

Fieldfare - BirdForum Opus

www.birdforum.net

 

[Somerchick]

Welcome to BF.
Fieldfare. A species of thrush.
They look small for crab apples - maybe the bigger ones have already fallen off..

Welcome to BF.
Fieldfare. A species of thrush.
They look small for crab apples - maybe the bigger ones have already fallen off...

Thank you. That is a possibility we have thought if but it doesn’t look like other Fieldfares we have seen. It doesn’t have a speckled breast & is dark brown.

 

[Joern Lehmhus]

No picture or video visible for me?

 

[Jos Stratford]

No picture or video visible for me?

Perhaps something with your settings? Works fine for me, video of a Fieldfare 👍

 

[wheatearlp]

No picture or video visible for me?

Probably auto-downloaded to your device.

 

[delia todd]

Hi Somerchick and a warm welcome from me too. Sorry, all I get is a voice recording of two ladies talking LOL

I'm sure you will enjoy it here and I hope to hear about all the birds you see when out and about.

 

[delia todd]

I usually use PaleMoon as my browser.

So I tried to play it with Firefox and got this message: "No video with supported format and MIME type found"

Then I tried Edge (which I hate using) it needed to download another CODEC or something and it would have play I think except it wanted me to buy whatever system it was, so I backed out.

 

[Mike Crawley]

Nice Fieldfare but what happened to the key ?

 

[Somerchick]

Welcome to BF.
Fieldfare. A species of thrush.
They look small for crab apples - maybe the bigger ones have already fallen off...

The crab apple is a variety called Red Sentinel and they are the size of a large cherry.

 

[Somerchick]

Hi Somerchick and a warm welcome from me too. Sorry, all I get is a voice recording of two ladies talking LOL

I'm sure you will enjoy it here and I hope to hear about all the birds you see when out and about.

Thank you! Sorry about the sound & no video!

 

[Butty]

Plays fine in Chrome/Android
Edge and Firefox under Win11 don't like it.

 

[delia todd]

Plays fine in Chrome/Android
Edge and Firefox under Win11 don't like it.

Downloaded Chrome.... another browser I dislike.

Some problem as with Edge... won't play unless I pay!

 

[Butty]

When all else fails (or before), try VLC - Android or Windows. Plays pretty much anything that's playable.

VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS! - VideoLAN

www.videolan.org

 

[Jos Stratford]

Was okay on Firefox for me

 

[PYRTLE]

The crab apple is a variety called Red Sentinel and they are the size of a large cherry.

A good all round variety, just planted a bare root specimen for my sister who hopes to attract winter visitors = Fieldfares.

 

[Somerchick]

A good all round variety, just planted a bare root specimen for my sister who hopes to attract winter visitors = Fieldfares.

Yes we’ve had a Redwing & Blackbirds arguing about ownership of the tree as well as Fieldfares!

 

[WalterRayle]

This bird was filmed feasting on a crab apple tree on 17th January 2024. I have not been able to identify it so help would be gratefully accepted. Thank you.

Fieldfare