what bird

[squelly]

it is the size of a thrush.it looks like a thrush covered in snow.it has a pink throat with two brown spot below .

[ADMIRALHILL]

Defintely a Fieldfare,I have put some old cooking apples out on the lawn and they love them.

[horselady]

Same here, there a 2 in the garden right now taking care of some apples.

[ethandron]

i don't believe fieldfares have pink throats though, they're more buff/yellow. they also have a very distinctive grey head and back and are bigger than a thrush. could be pipit of some sort, maybe a scandanavian one.

[horselady]

Now I've re-read your description, yours may not be a Fieldfare, they are like chubby thrushes with a peachy coloured throat and a speckled chest, not just two brown spots. I've just scared mine off now by trying to sneak up on them for a closer look!

[ethandron]

i've just been looking in my bird book and found that water pipits have pink-flushed whitish underparts, and there's a red throated pipit too, which has a pinkish to brick-red face, throat and upper breast.
we also have a couple of fieldfares in the garden at the moment, and they really are unmistakable - but defo no pink :)

[slinkycat]

I was just about to post a question about fieldfares when I saw this thread! There was one in our urban garden half an hour ago, what I was wondering though, according to my bird book and the RSPB website, they move around in flocks, so is it usual to see one on its own?

[ethandron]

apparently so, during extreme weather like we're having at the moment. it drives them into gardens to forage for food. a birding forum i belong to has numerous posts at the moment about fieldfares and redwings being seen singly or in pairs, in gardens, and for many people it's the first time they've had one in their garden.

[slinkycat]

Oh right, thanks for that ethandron, think its the first time I've seen one, let alone in my garden:-)
Would put some food down in case it comes back, but the chickens would get there first!

[Rev Sermon]

Possibly a redwing. They look a lot like a thrush (same family) and tend to have a reddish patch under their wing spreading onto the chest. I saw a single one sitting in a tree just beyond the bottom of our garden this morning.

[gen2]

Last week I had 5 redwing (resting in tree, not feeding.
Two days ago had a single fieldfare in my garden eating snowberries (Symphoricarpos albus)