Saturday 13 May 2017

SATURDAY CRITTERS - Amsterdam

This was a very busy Song Thrush at the Keukenhcf Gardens in Holland where it was collecting food to feed her young that nested in a beautiful white blossom tree nearby. I am linking this post with SATURDAY CRITTERS.


Now it is intesting that the first 2 people who commented mentioned about the stripes and polka dots and if you look closely, this thrush has neither and in fact this is one way of IDing it from a Miatle Thrush in the UK.  This Song Thrush's markings are more like the head of an arrow pointing upwards.  The Mistle Thrush's markings are more like dots.  Hope this helps.




Many thanks for your visit and also your comments.
Have a lovely weekend.

14 comments:

  1. Very good pictures! We have a thrush here that is called a Nightingale. This is because they sing at night. He does look like this bird! Only no stomach stripes.

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  2. Beautiful images, Margaret. Interesting to see the arrow-shaped marks. We have a Babbler here in South Africa called just that: Arrow Marked Babbler. Thanks for sharing. Have a wonderful day. Jo

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  3. Thats a bird who visit our garden often. Have a nice weekend.

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  4. Observing a Song Thrush Margaret, such a rare event nowadays.

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  5. Fantastic shots of the bird.

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  6. I wish I saw more Song Thrushes than I do, Margaret. They're a very rare visitor to our garden, and I don't see many of them when I'm out in the countryside also.

    Sorry I've not been by for a while. Thank you for visiting my blog.

    With my best wishes - - - Richard

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  7. Lovely photos. I find the various Thrushes hard to ID.

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  8. Lovely macro shots of our 'feathered friends' ~ thanks,

    Happy Mother's Day ~ ^_^

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  9. Well regardless, it looks to be in charge of whatever it's doing.... Very nice pictures.

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  10. Lovely Song Thrush shots. :)
    Apologies for lack of comments recently - still caught up with time consuming matters at my mother's house so, although I read posts, I don't always get time to comment. Really enjoying your Holland posts - bringing back memories as my grandparents took me there on a day trip when I was a child to see the tulips :)

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  11. Hello, what a pretty bird ! Awesome shots.

    I am still running a little behind visiting my critter links! Thanks so much for linking up, have a great new week ahead!

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  12. Strange as it may seem, this bird does not seem to have done too well in Australia - it was introduced long with a number of other common UK species, but it's one of the few not to have made the most of its chances!

    Cheers - Stewart M - Melbourne

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