Song Thrush
Turdus philomelos

If you find a rock in the garden or countryside with a pile of smashed snail shells, then this is likely the work of a Song Thrush. The song is usually made of up of repeated favourite patterns that are often different in each bird. They have an ochre patch under the wings and on the flanks of the breast, which is useful for identification as Redwings have red and Mistle Thrushes white in the same area.
 

  

  

1: River Blackwater, Sandhurst, 30/01/2006.
2-3: Bowling Green Marsh RSPB, 01/12/2006.
4: Bowling Green Marsh RSPB, 03/03/2007.