Anyone know anything about garden birds?

[drivin_me_nuts]

... Got a whole bloody army of them in the garden at the moment, not seen them before.

Slightly bigger than a blackbird, narror red stripe running front to back across the head.

Any ideas what they might be?

Cheers

[13th]

Try www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdidentifier/

[illmonkey]

Blackbirds with go faster strips, innit.

[WorAl]

Field Fare? ETA: these pics aren't that good, they do have a slight red stripe on the head

Edited by WorAl on Wednesday 3rd February 11:52

[Don]

It is Fieldfare time of year. We've had some in the garden.

[Matt Evans]

13th said:

Try www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdidentifier/

This is a great website. My girlfriend introduced me to it the other day.

[drivin_me_nuts]

Thanks for the link. Found it - green woodpecker.

[Don]

drivin_me_nuts said:

Thanks for the link. Found it - green woodpecker.

Green Woodpeckers are solitary aren't they? Certainly - I've never seen an "army" of them. You sure?

[Alex]

Tits?

[Silverbullet767]

There's a girl in the garden.....

[WorAl]

Don said:

drivin_me_nuts said:

Thanks for the link. Found it - green woodpecker.

Green Woodpeckers are solitary aren't they? Certainly - I've never seen an "army" of them. You sure?

they are, certainly never seen a flock of them.

Mother and young? wouldn't have thought so this time of year, but they may have been late fledglings.

OP how many do you class as an army?

[drivin_me_nuts]

WorAl said:

Don said:

drivin_me_nuts said:

Thanks for the link. Found it - green woodpecker.

Green Woodpeckers are solitary aren't they? Certainly - I've never seen an "army" of them. You sure?

they are, certainly never seen a flock of them.

Mother and young? wouldn't have thought so this time of year, but they may have been late fledglings.

OP how many do you class as an army?

I am sure it is what I saw.

(Army being a slight exageration on my part, but around 20. I'll look again at the site, but I didn't see anything else remotely close. Red stripe , bright red stripe (cap?) over the head running front to back.

[WorAl]

drivin_me_nuts said:

WorAl said:

Don said:

drivin_me_nuts said:

Thanks for the link. Found it - green woodpecker.

Green Woodpeckers are solitary aren't they? Certainly - I've never seen an "army" of them. You sure?

they are, certainly never seen a flock of them.

Mother and young? wouldn't have thought so this time of year, but they may have been late fledglings.

OP how many do you class as an army?

I am sure it is what I saw.

(Army being a slight exageration on my part, but around 20. I'll look again at the site, but I didn't see anything else remotely close. Red stripe , bright red stripe (cap?) over the head running front to back.

What colour was the body? Green Woodpeckers are very green and they don't tend to hang around in flocks. You may have just been lucky though.

Green Woodpecker.

[drivin_me_nuts]

That's definately it.

Beautiful looking bird , reminded me of the Saab greeny/grey colour 'scarab green' I think.

Never seen one before let along a whole group of them.

[Mobile Chicane]

Parakeets would be more likely if there are a number of them.

[WorAl]

I've never seen a group of them, you're a lucky man.

[motco]

Ring-necked parakeet



Wringed neck of parakeet

[central]

Fieldfares and Redwings are around in big numbers at the moment.

You'll never see a flock of Woodpeckers.

Groucho!

[central]

Redwing -

[fastfreddy]

central said:

Fieldfares and Redwings are around in big numbers at the moment.

You'll never see a flock of Woodpeckers.

Groucho!