Hunstanton Norfolk, Oct 19th. (1 Viewer)

[KenM]

Carrying out a “heavy deletion” exercise on my SD card today, I came across this image, which was one of many that I took at the time during a very heavy influx of Redwings off the sea (‘000’s at least on the day) and had completely forgotten about!
All I can say was that it was thrush sized and of all the images that I shot from the hip, this one had to be somewhat below par….Sod’s Law.😩
Comments welcome.

Cheers

 

[Butty]

Yet again... Unless there is some issue of urgency, could you please post the actual photo - not a photo of a photo on a small screen. This simply wastes everybody's time and looks disrespectful. Thanks.

 

[KenM]

Yet again... Unless there is some issue of urgency, could you please post the actual photo - not a photo of a photo on a small screen. This simply wastes everybody's time and looks disrespectful.

Remiss of me Butty! This is the original and far superior to the back of camera.😮

 

[dwatsonbirder]

Blackbird.

 

[jogresh]

Yep looks good for Blackbird 👍🙂🦜

 

[rosbifs]

Could see why you wanted to delete the photo...

 

[KenM]

Yep looks good for Blackbird 👍🙂🦜

Certainly got a Blackbirds head…it’s the remainder that looks odd.😮

 

[Butty]

All normal.

 

[KenM]

Could see why you wanted to delete the photo...

But I didn’t, I thought it might be of interest….

 

[KenM]

Blackbird.

…..with a Black head only…not seen one of those before!

 

[Derbyfella]

All looks brown to me….and all looks very like a blackbird.

 

[Shaubird]

Juviniles and European migrants have black bills I believe.

 

[dwatsonbirder]

Juviniles and European migrants have black bills I believe.

First winters do, as for continental birds - that is fallacy. It's just that a lot of the birds making their way from Europe are 1st winter. 👍

 

[Alexander Stöhr]

Hello,
If I understand correct, Ken is referring to the all dark head, contrasting with the paler Body (with a warm purple tinge).
I think, this impression is (at least partially) caused by blurred body and a sharper, unblurred head. Blurred parts are often paler than sharper picture parts, in such unsharp, artefact-loaded pictures.
Your picture seems one more example for this, no offense you know, Ken

 

[Rotherbirder]

Just out of interest Ken, In the (very unlikely) event that it was marked as you say, what exactly are you postulating that it could be?

RB

 

[Phil Andrews]

Ken - are you really Jenny from Alvecote? (apologies to those not on Twitter)

 

[KenM]

Just out of interest Ken, In the (very unlikely) event that it was marked as you say, what exactly are you postulating that it could be?

RB

Oh dear….mine is not to postulate but to enquire, hence the thread.
Don’t understand….”very unlikely) event that it was marked as I said?”
I didn’t say anything! I just presented an image and asked for comments.
What Machiavellian intrigue are you postulating Rother?

 

[antbird53]

…..with a Black head only…not seen one of those before!

But it doesn't have a black head only. As you can see it has a black belly and a black patch on the breast, with a dark grey collar and dark grey patch around the eye and grey wings with a purplish mantle...or could it just be a poor image I wonder?

 

[KenM]

But it doesn't have a black head only. As you can see it has a black belly and a black patch on the breast, with a dark grey collar and dark grey patch around the eye and grey wings with a purplish mantle...or could it just be a poor image I wonder?

Clearly a lot of artefact present, I can see a black head contrasting with a paler body, and when one “monkeys around”(as I have in order to bring out a “better” image) with the editing software.
I can see a paler gap between the head and breast, also the darker lower belly is almost certainly shadow.

It is singularly one of my worst images, for that I apologise, nevertheless worth showing for all that.

Cheers

 

[Rotherbirder]

Are you attempting to 'string' a Black-throated Ken? Another pointless exercise!

RB