9th February 2016

Was walking through Larkspur Crescent, Yeovil this morning when I found a female Ring Ouzel with some Blackbirds in the NE corner of the crescent. I managed a couple pictures on my phone, but I failed to relocate it when I returned an hour later with my camara.

Ring Ouzel - Yeovil

Really surprising find for Yeovil in February! I have encoutered a partial albino blackbird in Yeovil several years ago that resembled a ring ouzel, but todays bird showed the perfect throat pattern, along with pale-edged wing feathers and in-flight the bird showed a long tail, giving it a fieldfare-like jizz. The bird also gave typical ring ouzel flight calls when flushed.