I have seen a Song Thrush, in my own back yard, but it was a long time ago, and
I'm just about in your back yard!
This bird was a fair distance away, but it didn't have the jizz of a Blackbird,
very wary and it flew upwards into a plane tree. Not proof, just weird.
> On 17 Jan 2017, at 6:56 pm, Brian Fleming <> wrote:
>
> A young Blackbird can look quite like a Song Thrush, but a Song Thrush is
> always a much lighter brown on the back - colour of dry earth compared to the
> wet-earth colour of female and immature Blackbirds. In a young Blackbird the
> breast is usually mottled, but in a young Song Thrush the breast is white
> with the typical spots. It's not surprising to get them confused - after all
> Common Blackbirds are typical members of the Thrush family.
>
> Back in the days before droughts and snail killer finished the Song
> Thrushes, I used to have both species in my garden.
>
> Anthea Fleming
>
>
>> On 17/01/2017 6:08 PM, Bill Stent wrote:
>> I'm not totally sure of this one, but there was what was either a juvenile
>> Blackbird or a Song Thrush in Treasury Gradens this afternoon, up near the
>> vehicle entrance to the government precinct. The light crescent around the
>> face was clear, but I'm not sure precisely.
>>
>> Anyone else there?
>>
>> Bill
>>
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