howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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looks like a thrush - spots underneath?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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that was my first thought kath but it seems the shape is different, the thrush is more round.
zoomed in on the photo but didn't help much.
Guest 686- Registered: 5 May 2009
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My trusty Collins Nature Guide has two thrushes listed - song thrush (which I think is the more common) and the mistle thrush which is a bit bigger.
http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/m/mistlethrush/index.aspxPhil West
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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looks like the mistle thrush to me phil.
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It does look like a very slim thrush though (?)
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Looks like a Thrush, seen a lot in Ashford recently
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Its not a female pheasant is it? The male has all the glorious colour and the female is rather a plain brown creature. However they are larger scale than a thrush but hard to tell from the picture.
Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
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I think it looks more like a Fieldfare, they are slightly bigger than a Thrush, same spotted breast but a longer, greyish, tail.They seem to be increasing in number in the Coldred area.
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It could be a fieldfare, they are very similar to thrushes.
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Jan Higgins
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It is the wrong shape for a female pheasant, I do not think it is a round enough shape for a fieldfare.
Maybe it is a female blackbird that has had its feathers bleached at the featherdressers
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i have never heard of the fieldfare, got this picture off the net.
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Fieldfare was the name I settled for when I had to search them out. I had not encountered one before, but over the last four or five years they have appeared as if by magic in my local park. Driven off farm land?
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Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
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Another magnificent bird on the increase is the Buzzard, I counted eight in the skies above Waldershire/Coldred, alerted by the high pitched "mew", we looked up to see them circling the woodland, swooping, almost at play. They stayed above us for the best part of 20 mins before soaring so high we lost sight of them. Wow!! moment.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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buzzards are seen over lydden nature reserve i understand.
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Also the Red Kite Howard, equally impressive. My daughter lives on the farm at the top of Lyddden reserve and the wildlife is amazing, Colred also seems to have its own climate too. My 3 yr old grandaughter asked the other day if Coldred it cold could they move to Walmer where it's warmer!
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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It's probably a thin thrush trying to put on weight after bringing up a brood (much like many Dover residents
), fieldfares are generally winter visitors.
We see lots of buzzards over the Lydden nature reserve from our back garden, even have names for some of the distinctive ones. This is one of The Three Graces doing a flypast with a jackdaw for size comparison.
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Lesley, tell your granddaughter people from Lydden walk up the hill to Coldred to warm up!
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There are buzzards near Tilmanstone
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