Tracking Live Case - whose babies are we (large picc)

[British Red]

So...who are today's new borns??

Red

 

[_scorpio_]

is that a wee robin?
or maybe something along the lines of a starling or blackbird?
blue tit?

 

[Cyclingrelf]

Aw - love the mohigans! I'm going to guess Great tits.

 

[Hugo]

They look like Gary glitter to me.

 

[JonathanD]

I'm going with Great tits too.

 

[_scorpio_]

why? could it not be a blue tit or a coal tit? what am i not seeing that everyone else can?

 

[JonathanD]

why? could it not be a blue tit or a coal tit? what am i not seeing that everyone else can?

Well, personally, I'm also looking at nesting material, construction and location.

 

[_scorpio_]

location seems to be a bird box? is that more usual for great tits?

 

[JonathanD]

location seems to be a bird box? is that more usual for great tits?

Tits do like boxes. Also look at the beak construction and you can see what shape it will turn into once the gape starts disappearing, which will then show you what they eat as adults. The nest construction is important, blackbirds don't tend to use green stuff and moss, just brown grasses and thin twigs, starlings make a big mess and not really a proper construction, thrush would be mud lined, robin lined with fine grasses and hairs, same with blue tits. You can't be 100% with a quick shot like that unless you are a bird nerd, but you can narrow it down. The Hair Bear Bunch affros also make me think Great tit, although robins have them too.

Still, birds are not my forte, so I could be well wrong

 

[_scorpio_]

takes some experience to be able to tell then?

 

[British Red]

Well, I can positively rule out great tits. Its not a bird box by the way, but shoved into the roof line of the log store by the back door of the cottage

Red

 

[JonathanD]

Well, I can positively rule out great tits. Its not a bird box by the way, but shoved into the roof line of the log store by the back door of the cottage

Red

See, there you go Scorps. Now I'm stumped Only other fuzzy bonces I know are robins.

 

[bivibabe]

Is it Swallow?

 

[_scorpio_]

muhahahahahaaa! still i didint come close either.
chaffinch, greenfinch, wren?.... african grey?

 

[_scorpio_]

its not a mud nest so i dont think it would be swallow...
dove? wood pigeon?

 

[British Red]

They are robins - you got it on the first hit scorpio

I didn't call it "won" cos it was in a long list Not often you can take a picture like that stood inside your own back door is it?

 

[JonathanD]

its not a mud nest so i dont think it would be swallow...
dove? wood pigeon?

It's a small bird. Pigeons are damned ugly, you can't mistake them...

 

[JonathanD]

They are robins - you got it on the first hit scorpio

I didn't call it "won" cos it was in a long list Not often you can take a picture like that stood inside your own back door is it?

Nice one Scorps, although you should be penalized for African grey

You're lucky Red, closest I have to wild birds in my place is this daft budgie I found in the woods last year..

 

[_scorpio_]

wooop! thought it looked like a nest my nan had in the garage!
google: "afro headed baby bird" and you will see why i had to guess african grey!

 

[JonathanD]

wooop! thought it looked like a nest my nan had in the garage!
google: "afro headed baby bird" and you will see why i had to guess african grey!

You got African grey from this...