Can you identify this bird?

[lizzieloo]

Sounds like a red breasted blackbird

Which would be bloomin odd seeing as it is a native of South America. Could be an escapee from an aviary

 

[Fuchs66]

kingfishers are tiny and blue.

I know I'm clutching at straws now, it was the shiny with a red breast and big bill bit I was concentrating on and ignoring the rest.

 

[madzone]

Sounds like a red breasted blackbird

Which would be bloomin odd seeing as it is a native of South America. Could be an escapee from an aviary

Could it be a blow in?

 

[lizzieloo]

Could it be a blow in?

Would have to be one hell of a blow

 

[Fuchs66]

Could it be a blow in?

It'd have to be a big blow to diagonally cross the Atlantic

 

[*Miss Daisy*]

It'd have to be a big blow to diagonally cross the Atlantic

maybe it has a cold and is out of sorts,,

 

[boskysquelch]

redwing?

 

[Callie]

We need a photo of it stobes

 

[lizzieloo]

?

 

[madzone]

It'd have to be a big blow to diagonally cross the Atlantic

I dunno - it's been quite windy here

 

[Stobart Stopper]

We need a photo of it stobes

Well, thanks to Mrs M! She suggested this, and this is what it is.

Mystery solved. She said it's American, probably blown off course. I knew it was rare.

 

[Stobart Stopper]

Sounds like a red breasted blackbird

Which would be bloomin odd seeing as it is a native of South America. Could be an escapee from an aviary

But it does look a bit like that as well.
Oh fuck, this is really doing me head in.

 

[madzone]

Well, thanks to Mrs M! She suggested this, and this is what it is.

Mystery solved. She said it's American, probably blown off course. I knew it was rare.

That's not black and shiny with a 2 inch nail coming out its head!

 

[Stobart Stopper]

That's not black and shiny with a 2 inch nail coming out its head!

The body looks like that, but the beak just seems bigger.
Right! That's it! I will try to catch it, slap the bastard on my scanner and then we can work it out.

 

[Masseuse]

There was something in the paper last week about some woman seeing an american robin in her garden. I think it was the standard - so they definitely are over here at the moment. Or at least 2 are.

 

[ScallyWag II]

Well, thanks to Mrs M! She suggested this, and this is what it is.

Mystery solved. She said it's American, probably blown off course. I knew it was rare.

yeah but what exactly is this????

and what is that lizzieloo?

 

[snadge]

Well, thanks to Mrs M! She suggested this, and this is what it is.

Mystery solved. She said it's American, probably blown off course. I knew it was rare.

that's an american robin

 

[Stobart Stopper]

It's this! Without a doubt:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4852812.stm
Mrs M said to look on the BBC site and here it is. I am not having any nutters in my garden though. No way.

(well, if they want to pay me, I might consider it.)

 

[snadge]

It's this! Without a doubt:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4852812.stm
Mrs M said to look on the BBC site and here it is. I am not having any nutters in my garden though. No way.

(well, if they want to pay me, I might consider it.)

na na

I named it first

 

[lizzieloo]

Good bird ID site here

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I am not having any nutters in my garden though. No way.

ahem....I have been known to frequent your garden...my invite withdrawn is it then?





No discernment, these American Robins...Peckham, Essex...wherever next?




<legs it sharpish>

 

[madzone]

that's an american robin

Kinell! I thought about saying American robin but I thought you'd all say it couldn't be cos she's in bleddy Essex!

 

[Stobart Stopper]

Well the poor bird is obviously lost, the magpies and blackbirds, who are nasty bullies, hate it and keep trying to chase it away. It's nice to know what it is, it's been bugging me for days.

 

[dogmatique]

I wonder if it got lost with the same bird that was found in Peckham? Apparently the Peckham won was hanging round for weeks before it was identified. It's quite concievable they both got blown off course in the same storm.

 

[lizzieloo]

I wonder if it got lost with the same bird that was found in Peckham? Apparently the Peckham won was hanging round for weeks before it was identified. It's quite concievable they both got blown off course in the same storm.

It might be the same one

 

[dogmatique]

It's this! Without a doubt:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4852812.stm
Mrs M said to look on the BBC site and here it is. I am not having any nutters in my garden though. No way.

(well, if they want to pay me, I might consider it.)

You do realise this was a really big story across all media last week don't you?

 

[Stobart Stopper]

I wonder if it got lost with the same bird that was found in Peckham? Apparently the Peckham won was hanging round for weeks before it was identified. It's quite concievable they both got blown off course in the same storm.

If I remember correctly, it probably appeared last week, I remember it was really windy and one of our fences was blowing down, that was the day I saw it first. It was perched on the fence then flew off down the garden. I bet there's more than one, got to be. It's quite exciting really. Shame my brother is on holiday, he'd be down here like a shot with his binoculars as he's really into bird-watching.

 

[Stobart Stopper]

You do realise this was a really big story across all media last week don't you?

I do now, I remember vaguely seeing a headline about it in the background when the news was on, but I didn't look and I didn't pay any attention to it as it wasn't happening around here, never crossed my mind that this could be the same type of bird.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

all you need to know about Turdus migratorius...

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/American_Robin_dtl.html

 

[dogmatique]

Just did a quick search, and it even made the papers in America, where it's about as rare as a blackbird is here.