Birds In Our Garden.

[Sean Regan]

We get a lot of birds in our garden, blue-tits, dunnocks, robins, sparrows, a wagtail, blackbirds, starlings, the occasionally jay and pesky wood pigeons.
But I didn't recognise this one. I didn't recognise the white collar. Possibly a juvenile starling?

Any ideas?

I took it on "zoom" through the glass of the French windows, it's on the garage pergola more than 20 feet away, so not the clearest of photos.

 

[Marck]

Hmm, perhaps a slightly paler than average female Blackbird (Turdus merula)?

 

[Sean Regan]

Hmm, perhaps a slightly paler than average female Blackbird (Turdus merula)?

Possibly, but it looked different from other female blackbird vistors to our garden

 

[Marck]

Perhaps send the pic to a UK birding forum. I'd be curious to know what they determined.