I use the word "Jaws" advisedly !!
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Kerren, my guidance may have been misleading, or else it's a regional variation - but not one of the fieldfare flock that arrived this lunchtime had a white stripe around the eye! They did have what looked like small white "epaulettes" though. In fact they all varied slightly - some had honey-beige bibs with a darker waistcoat effect coming round from the wings but not quite meeting in the middle front, some were spottier than others. Very awkward, but definitely fieldfares!kerrensimmonds wrote:Thanks Annie...yes, the mottled thrush-like markings were more of a bib than a breast, so I will look out for the eye markings. I have a pair of small, not very superior, binoculars on my bedroom windowsill so I will employ them pdq in daylight tomorrow.
Thanks again for your guidance.
This made me laugh!J.R. wrote:Today, we had 8 wood-pigeons strutting around on the patio, right up to the doors, satisfying their hunger. Toby was absolutely beside himself in anger with his nose pressed against the doors, the pigeons, protected, less than six inches from him, blissfully filling their tums !
The late Charlie (a canine) absolutely hated birds in his garden. The children and their friends would tease him by saying there were birds in his garden (even when there were not) and he would rush out wildly to chase them - he never learned! One day there was a "bird" with a long tail which, instead of flying away, ran up the fence post, along the fence and up a tree; Charlie couldn't understand that a squirrel is not supposed to fly away!kerrensimmonds wrote:My (indoor) cats make hideous noises of protest whenever they see birds feeding from the generous feeding stations in my back garden. .