Song Thrush- Hebridean Birds - Western Isles Birds - Birdlife and Bird Sightings in the Hebrides
Western Isles Birds - Song Thrushes - one of the commonest birds to be seen throughout Scotland and The UK. Easily recognised by its brown upperparts and cream coloured heavily spotted underparts - when it is flying you will see that this lovely bird has orange - yellow underwing parts.

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Thrushes - Song Thrush - Western Isles Birds Sightings

song thrush stornoway castle grounds jun 2009

Thrush - A song Thrush -Stornoway Castle Grounds
Western Isles - June 2009

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song thrush grasmere lake district May 2009

song thrush Traigh Mhor - Western Isles bird Sightings

Song Thrush - Stornoway
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Song Thrush
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Song Thrush
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This thrush seemed not to be frightened of us and let us get quite close to him - Stornoway Castle Grounds

This thrush was hopping along on the ground in Grasmere - The Lake District Its legs are pink, medium in length. Both sexes are similar with a brown back and a cream underside which is speckled black.

This song thrush was hopping around at the top of Traigh Mhor - Tolsta

Bird Overview - Song Thrushes
Family	Thrushes	Latin name	Turdus philomeios
Population	Common	Similar Species	Mistle Thrush, Redwing
Description	The song thrush is a most attractive bird - has warm brown underparts - a little paler underneath with spots or 'speckles' on its underparts. A distinctive orange underwing can be seen when in flight.
Size	23cm - 9ins
Habitat	These birds can be seen in gardens, woodlands even on the beaches in The Western Isles. (i expect this is perhaps because on the moorlands covered cliff tops - there will be an abundance of snails.
Food	Snails form a large part of its diet. These birds are adept at using rocks and stones to assist them cracking the snail shells open They also eat earth worms insects and berries.
Voice	A melodic song - two or three phrases repeated again and again.
Breeding	The nest of the song thrush is made of leaves and twigs and the thrush lays 4 or 5 eggs which are spotted with black spots - the eggs are pale blue. Incubation is 12-14 days and the young fledge at 14-16days. The breeding season lasts from March to August.
Misc. Info	Song Thrushes are caught and eaten by other birds such as Sparrowhawks and in urban areas many are victims of cats.

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