Mistle or Song thrush (2 Viewers)

[Gander]

Continental Song Thrushes are greyer than British residents??

This is one of three that turned up on my patch (Kinghorn, Fife) last week. Am I safe in saying that it is probably a British resident, based on the brownish back?

 

[01101001]

Looks like a Mistle Thrush to me, this--the spots are all roundish and irregularly distributed.

 

[Bewick]

This is one of three that turned up on my patch (Kinghorn, Fife) last week. Am I safe in saying that it is probably a British resident, based on the brownish back?

This is a mistle thrush.

 

[dantheman]

This is one of three that turned up on my patch (Kinghorn, Fife) last week. Am I safe in saying that it is probably a British resident, based on the brownish back?

As others say, this is a Mistle Thrush.

(But I see it as having a greyish cast to its back - the usual British Song Thrush a much warmer richer darker brown than this!

An example of the kind of 'grey' continental bird -

11/04/2018: Ivy berry Blackcaps and continental Song Thrush. )

 

[01101001]

Also, greyish back and lots of tiny, irregular dots, plus jizz (example below). I've also had the problem of my camera focusing on the wrong parts--you can sometimes adjust the focus by hand using Manual setting (that's its name, I think): it won't be supersharp but can well be better than Auto. Or, if you feel you're really bad at it, why don't you switch to bins only, taking field notes or sound recording. Not everybody has to take photos the likes of which we can see in the Gallery.

The below was taken with a DMC-FZ50 (if you really want to know ). My current profile picture of a(n unusually cooperative) Blackbird is much better because it was phonescoped using the bins.

Incidentally, I also posted two photos of a 'continental' Song Thrush upthread.

 

[Gander]

As others say, this is a Mistle Thrush.

Sorry, misread your post (#19). I knew my bird was a Mistle, but thought you were talking about Mistle, not Song.