ID Medium Grey Bird

[Grimalkin]

A friend on fb has just asked for ideas re a bird she has just seen in her garden..

no pictures available sadly just his info

Light grey..very smooth feathers. Bigger than a blackbird smaller than a collared dove. Very dark eyes with a light/white ring around them. Very sharp looking beak.. again longer than a blackbirds. Legs like a blackbird too

Standing on a feedtray pecking quite viciously at a fatball, the feed tray and fatballs are quite high up on the pole of a feeding station.

Any suggestions

[shenk1]

Sounds like a Mistle Thrush (minus the speckled breast if seen from behind)

[Grimalkin]

Originally Posted by shenk1

Sounds like a Mistle Thrush (minus the speckled breast if seen from behind)

It was a uniform light grey all over

[King Edward]

Juvenile Starling?

[2dogs2000]

Originally Posted by King Edward

Juvenile Starling?

My thoughts too.

[solus]

It sounds very much like a juvenile Starling, especially the "pecking quite viciously at a fatball" bit! Mine here stab at the fat bars like they're trying to kill them! (Which they do, at the rate of one every two days or less!)

[astarsdad]

Hi,

What you describe seems to be a collared dove. I have known people that think a wood pigeon is a collared dove! Worth checking if your friend is confused.

Terry