Björktrast - Turdus pilaris - Fieldfare

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Björktrast - Turdus pilaris - Field fare

NF Photo  130530

The Fieldfare has a busy time feeding the young. The parent feed the young with a BIG worm and yet the young immediately begs for more. It´s hunger don´t seem to ever stop.

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Koltrast, hane - Turdus merula - Common Blackbird, male

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Koltrast, hane - Turdus merula - Common Blackbird, male

NF Photo 130223

Last week I posted a female Blackbird, now I found her mate. Could be her mate anyway.  I think he had a really nice view up there.  :)

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Koltrast - Turdus merula - Common Blackbird, female

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Koltrast, hona - Turdus merula - Common Blackbird, female

NF Photo 130210 

A lovely bird to see in winter. Sometimes at a feeder. They stay put as ong as there are berries on trees. Otherwise they migrate.

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Taltrast - Turdus philomelos - Song Trush

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Taltrast - Turdus philomelos - Song Trush

NF Photo 120628, Arran, Scotland

This one was hunting for flies outside a destillery. I wonder.......? It seems very determined.

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Rödhake - Erithacus rubecula - European Robin

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Rödhake - Erithacus rubecula - European Robin

NF Photo 120120

Rödhaken värmer sig i den lågtstående vintersolen. Det var första gången jag sett en vintertid.  

European Robin warms itself in the low winter sun. The first time I saw one in winter.  

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Ringtrast - Turdus torquatus - Ring Ouzel

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Ringtrast - Turdus torquatus - Ring Ouzel

NF Photo 110616, Storulvån

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Blåhake - Luscinia svecica - Bluethroat

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Blåhake, hane - Luscinia svecica - Bluethroat, male
NF Photo 110616 at Storulvån Mountain Lodge

Our guide at Storulvån asked us the first day what we expected from this trip. I said I wanted some great shots from this bird. Then it turned out that most of the group wanted it. This little bird was "wanted" and we got it. Sadly though, I did not see any female. But they might have been laying on eggs. It was singing a lot and very nice to listen to. It seems to be good at mimicking other sounds like the cowbells for one.  It was rather common up there.

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World Bird Wednesday XXXI

I found a great video where it is singing.
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Näktergal - Luscinia luscinia - Thrush nightingale

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Näktergal - Luscinia luscinia - Thrush nightingale

NF Photo 110601

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I was about to call this post "Mission Impossible".  June 1st I heard the Nightingale for the first time this year. It was in a garden in the countryside. I went out of the car and tried to locate it. Took me about 15 min before I saw it in the bushes. I managed to get the shots above half hanging in the bushes myself.

Next day I went to Kvismaren. A Bird Observatory about an hours drive from where I live. I heard Nightingales all over the place. Lots of them. And close. But in the bushes. No matter how hard I tried to locate them I could not see them. Not a single one.

The same today, as I am setting up the first post on them. It was really hard to find information on them. In swedish I did not find anything. And this is a common bird. Talk about weird. Well known by everyone. But obviously hard to get a shot at. And information without a shot....forget it! :(

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Blåhake - Luscinia svecica - Bluethroat

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Blåhake - Luscinia svecica - Bluethroat

NF Photo 100902, a small bird, in the evening and at quite a distant. Maybe next year I can get a better one.

Bluethroat at wiki

Well, my pics is no sucess but I found a nice video on youtube. It is singing.

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Taltrast - Turdus philomelos - Song Trush

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Taltrast - Turdus philomelos - Song Trush
NF Photo 100730 at Brinka, Lixtorp

Important feature for  ID-ing are the arrowshaped dots on it´s front.

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About Song Trush on wiki

song thrush sings on youtube

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Svarthakad buskskvätta - Saxicola torquatus - Common Stonechat

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Svarthakad buskskvätta - Saxicola torquatus - Common Stonechat

 NF Photo 100515, Öland

A male of a species not normally in Sweden. Photo taken with 500mm lens and in cloudy wheather.

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Svart rödstjärt - Phoenicurus ochruros - Black Redstart

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Svart rödstjärt, hona - Phoenicurus ochruros - Black Redstart, female

NF Photo 100513 at Ventlinge, Öland

I don´t know, but she looks a bit fat. Maybe there is an egg in her belly. This was in the middle of May. Could it be? I don´t have that experience to be sure.

All redstarts

BPW 98

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Dubbeltrast - Turdus viscivorus - Mistle Thrush

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Dubbeltrast - Turdus viscivorus - Mistle Thrush

NF Photo 100609 at Tornskogen

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Song at youtube

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