Your Swilling Assignment for Christmas Eve?
Name the species of this frickety fracking bird!
He and two of his mousy brown backed, white breasted (with immaculate black scallop edged feather detail) buddies showed up at the feeder this afternoon, and I’ll be damned if I can find them on any of the birding sites.
We’re stumped. And Crusader’s already slung the “yella bellied sapsucker”, so don’t even GO there.
A figgy pudding for the right answer!
Fun | tree hugging sister | 
December 23, 2012 10:40 pm
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Think those are two different species. Top one may be Wood Thrush?
Bottom one maybe white-throated sparrow
And even if I’m totally wrong, I cannot speak highly enough of the “What bird?” website. Search by all manner of features and compare songs and whatnot.
The top bird, left peg is the MYSTERY BIRD, Alice and oh, GRAND guess! But what stops me is his beak. It was very finch-like and, from the FINE photographs I could find ~ as opposed these shitty ones taken steathily through the sliding door’s glass ~ the wood thrush has a very delicate beak and a speckled chest. Every last feather on these fellows’ fine breast plumage is trimmed out in black. Plus, thrushes’re a robin relative and, as such, I don’t think they’d be seed eating themselves into a coma on a feeder.
As for those sparrows ~ if they’ve got a mugshot of them somewhere, we can match it in the backyard… 😛
Think you ought to write (and send link or pic) to one of those sites. I can’t find it – and I am GOOD at Internet hunts…
Oh… and Merry Christmas!
It is a Scaly-breasted Munia. I want my figgy pudding! 🙂 I will let Bingly have a bite or two.
Oh Bingley wants his figgy pudding
Yes Bingley wants his figgy pudding
Oh Bingley wants his figgy pudding
With his usual good cheer!
Oh, BANG!!
EXACTLY what they are!
And apparently INVASIVE, no less! Who let the little buggers in, I wonder.
No matter. One rancid figgy pudding on the way for a fanTABulous job!!