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of the song thrush throughout the British Isles!The thrush is my favourite garden bird, but surely to be politically correct I'm not now expected to collect snails from inside my compost bin and distribute them around the garden in the hope of attracting a

This is more exactly my experience too, here in North Derbyshire. A bird I had never seen before, but very handsome.A quick scrabble for the binoculars -no its not a thrush- scan through the bird book, couldn't find it at first sweep.One phone call

. As ever, it was slight struggle to find my daughter’s binoculars in one of the kitchen drawers, and when I got them to my eyes, the tree was bare.  They looked a bit like thrushes, but they weren’t. Even I know a thrush when I see one. The mystery

them then then simply place them on the rockpile 20 metres down the entry at the base of a large lorrel bush i must say the birds have a feild day ive often seen a robin blackbird thrush dining on them as soon as im far enough away like a buffet

.Monday 9th A rose chafer, apparently dead on a bedroom floor stirs slightly in the palm of my hand so we offer it honey water on a tissue. It laps it up and after an hour in the morning sun it flies off, revived.No such success with the thrush found dead

tips? Hi Richard, hope you had a nice holiday. What did you do with the poor thrush?

I thought I was watching a male and a female thrush in my garden as I thought they were courting so to speak, however I have just seen a male blackbird feed a berry to one of them so now I am thinking that I may have been watching two young female

Sometimes the best things are the subtle or quiet things. A little rustle of wind through a tree, the distant knock-knocking of a thrush beating seven bells out of a snail or, in this case, a modest wildflower lurking among the rough grass beside a

A beautiful pair of bullfinches loving my tatty forget-me-nots ! Thats lovely Lucky you, I haven't seen bullfinches for years. They are so beautiful. I'm thrilled that Mr Thrush has been singing fit to burst all morning at the top of my flowering

I just thought I'd mention that due to the very poor crops of some berries that we're seeing this autumn in our gardens (pyracantha is one that's been mentioned on this board) the garden blackbirds and thrushes that have come to rely on our