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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gwaihir" data-source="post: 1694255" data-attributes="member: 78964">Was just looking through my patio doors out to the garden, to have a look to see what was about on the feeders when I saw a bird that I had never seen before. Before I could get my camera it disappeared but not before I made a mental descriptive note of the bird. About Starling size with mottled chest, eye stripe and two distinctive red patches under wing on chest. Not having seen one of these before I wondered what the heck it was. Imagine my surprise when I sat down on the PC to make a post on the bird ID forum when I found this thread. I checked my Collins and sure enough it appears that I had a Redwing in my garden in Snowy Hampshire. Unless of course any of you learned folk on here point out my foolishness and tell me it was something different.kind regards and happy new year to all.Simon</blockquote>