What type of bird is this?

[Phil P]

can't tell the first one. looks too big for a skylark?
Yellow wagtail- actually quite a rare bird
black-headed gull
starling
lapwing.

A good variety of birds must be doing something right.

Sowing bird food (canary seed)

 

[primmiemoo]

Well I dunno ~ farmers talking benignly bout wild birds. World's gorn mad

 

[Bald Rick]

Yes loads of starlings round here.
Edit: rough count there’s at least 20+ in the field at the moment.

Well I dunno ~ farmers talking benignly bout wild birds. World's gorn mad

@Phil P …. Shoot the sods now.

 

[Phil P]

@Phil P …. Shoot the sods now.

The one day I really need to shoot something and I didn’t have the gun with me bloody typical .

To be fair I’ve not seen it again since taking the picture!

 

[Bald Rick]

The one day I really need to shoot something and I didn’t have the gun with me bloody typical .

To be fair I’ve not seen it again since taking the picture!

I was talking about the kin starlings …

 

[Exfarmer]

That first bird is difficult identify as we have no idea of size. My initial reaction was a Stone Curlew but they are a relatively large bird about 24 inches long with a winspan about 36.
they are best identified by a side shot of the eyes which is unmistakeable.
the penguin bird is an oystercatcher

 

[Bald Rick]

That first bird is difficult identify as we have no idea of size. My initial reaction was a Stone Curlew but they are a relatively large bird about 24 inches long with a winspan about 36.
they are best identified by a side shot of the eyes which is unmistakeable.
the penguin bird is an oystercatcher

Penguin is a lapwing/green plover/peewit - ain’t no oystercatcher

 

[Exfarmer]

Penguin is a lapwing/green plover/peewit - ain’t no oystercatcher

Yes you are right

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Nice bit of dirt you’ve got there.

 

[Phil P]

That first bird is difficult identify as we have no idea of size. My initial reaction was a Stone Curlew but they are a relatively large bird about 24 inches long with a winspan about 36.
they are best identified by a side shot of the eyes which is unmistakeable.
the penguin bird is an oystercatcher

These are our oyster catchers, we’ve gone from one breeding about pair 5 years ago to 5/6 this year. They really aren’t fazed by the machinery one little bit and will quite happy stay on the nest while we work round them.

 

[yellowbelly]

Nice bit of dirt you’ve got there.

Pete's 'ice breaker' question.....




.......supplementary question (expected anytime soon).....

"Does it need any lime?"

 

[Phil P]

Nice bit of dirt you’ve got there.

Ye on the boys ground today, last field sown up after carrots under straw.

 

[johnspeehs]

the first bird looks like a fieldfare but as others say hard to tell the size? Was it blackbird size @Phil P . We get huge flocks here in the winter.

 

[wrenbird]

It’s hardly likely to be a field fare at this time of the year as they are winter visitors, that’s why @Princess Pooper and I suggested a mistle thrush, same family, but resident.

 

[Phil P]

the first bird looks like a fieldfare but as others say hard to tell the size? Was it blackbird size @Phil P . We get huge flocks here in the winter.

Was blackbird/thrush sort of size.

 

[Princess Pooper]

Was blackbird/thrush sort of size.

Mistle Thrush Bird Facts | Turdus Viscivorus

This big, bold spotty thrush is very territorial when it comes to its favourite berry bushes. Listen for its harsh 'football rattle' call. Find out more

www.rspb.org.uk

Mistle thrush - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[goodevans]

Fieldfares's will nest in the UK but the biggest thumbs-up for going around the nest ,we always try to do that with peewits,in fact last year we pulled out of a 14 acre field which had 6 nests and ended up with a crap crop but feel alot better for it and soon forgotten

 

[Phil P]

Mistle Thrush Bird Facts | Turdus Viscivorus

This big, bold spotty thrush is very territorial when it comes to its favourite berry bushes. Listen for its harsh 'football rattle' call. Find out more

www.rspb.org.uk

Mistle thrush - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Looking at the markings on the head and around the eye it could have been a mistle-thrush.

 

[primmiemoo]

Mistle Thrush Bird Facts | Turdus Viscivorus

This big, bold spotty thrush is very territorial when it comes to its favourite berry bushes. Listen for its harsh 'football rattle' call. Find out more

www.rspb.org.uk

Mistle thrush - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

How interesting! Listening to the audio clip of the song in your links, I realise I've blurred Mistle and Song thrush together, and there are both here. Song thrush nest around the buildings, but I must keep eyes peeled for the bigger Mistles elsewhere.

 

[Pushdyke]

Is that a starling in the middle of the bottom pic? I know that some places have summering starlings.

I was going to say Starling but didn't expect to see one in a field.

We have loads here and newly hatched ones are beginning to show up too!

No Starlings in the summer or in a field,

Do you go round with your eyes closed or live in a concrete jungle somewhere