Solved What is this bird by my pond please?

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  1. Selleri

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    It's a first time I have seen it so am very curious. It's the size of a Blackbird, but much slimmer shape and the beak is quite long. Is it a some kind of a Warbler perhaps?

    The photos are in bad light but the overall colour is beige-ish, warmer shade than in the photos. It was alone, took a quick drink and flew off.

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    Looks like a young starling
     
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      pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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      Starling.
       
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        Our bird feeders and rear grass are inundated with them. Watched a mother getting into the melee, picking up a dried worm, then going back and giving it to her youngster. She repeated it about six or eight times.
        A mother's love.
         
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          Oh how disappointing, you could have at least started with something exiting such as "perhaps a juvenile Dodo or a Great Auk, most rare..." :biggrin:

          A starling it is. Thanks!
           
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            Our first Blackbird chick is out of the nest now. It looks like a sparrow on a bad-hair-day but is so cute hopping about and demanding to be beak-fed. :)

            The parents dutifully carry worms and feed the chick but at the same time peck the soil vigorously, apparently trying to explain to the baby that worms in fact come from below, not from the above directly into the beak.

            So far the chick ignores things below and demands beak-feeding. I feel for the parents. :)
             
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              I don't think any of us have got much chance of seeing a Dodo Selleri. :heehee: It doesn't look much like a Starling either.

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                That could be my garden. They splash so much water out of the bird bath we have to top it up at least once a day.
                 
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