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ID problems: young Blackbird
By Charlie • August 24, 2009 • 8 commentsA couple of days ago a photograph (reproduced below) was sent into the “Clinic” for identification. It was taken in the UK and showed an odd-looking, mottled thrush-like bird but was clearly not something that the photographer was used to seeing. Co-incidentally, but understandably when you realise what the species is, I had an almost [...]
An unfamiliar visitor to the bird-table?
By Charlie • July 14, 2009 • 3 commentsMy new office/broom-cupboard-full-of-books at our wonderful new home in Great Chalfield looks straight out at what I fully intend to be the most important bird feeding-station for - well, miles around (though the fact that the entire countryside surrounded our little garden appears to be one of the better-stocked feeding-stations I’ve seen for a long [...]
Juvenile birds: Scruffy Youths and Spotty Adolescents
By Charlie • July 3, 2008 • No comments yetA great question was sent into the 10,000 Birds Clinic today that has triggered off a train of thoughts and that led inevitably to this post. The questioner, Kathy, sent in three photos of a rather scruffy bird she’d found by her Toronto home which she thought she could identify but wasn’t 100% sure. Somewhat [...]
