Hi!
I spotted a bird on my garage roof and wondered what it is, I took a pic and will upload it whan I can. It was smallish, but bigger than a robin, it was all black, with a small white patch on its neck area. I would like to know what it is, I looked on the british garden bird site but couldn't find the bird.
Hope anyone can help, Luisa xx
Hi,
we'll wait for the photo but it could be a partial albino blackbird :) check this link...
-http://www.treknature.com/gallery/Europe/Italy/photo85177.htm
S
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well without the pic its anyone guess but if all black with white patches it could be above or now about a RING OUSUL.( Turdus torquatus )
dont just look enjoy and leave for others to share after you. we dont own the earth we just rent a small part of it....
unless your garden is on an island, backs onto a beach golf course or is at a migrant hot spot, Ring Ouzel is really unlikely :))
seymouraves said: Hi, unless your garden is on an island, backs onto a beach golf course or is at a migrant hot spot, Ring Ouzel is really unlikely :)) S
Strangely enough I got a tip-off a few years back about a Ring Ouzel hanging around a Cambridge special needs school and the Principal invited me over for a "diagnosis". Off I went fully expecting to find a Blackbird with some white feathers - but it was the real deal, a perfect male RO pecking around the lawns with all the other Turidae....
Every day a little more irate about bird of prey persecution, and I have a cat - Got a problem with that?
Unknown said: Hi, unless your garden is on an island, backs onto a beach golf course or is at a migrant hot spot, Ring Ouzel is really unlikely :)) S
Nice :)) But was it in February :))
Can't remember exactly but it was pretty cold. There was even a bit of receding snow at the time.