What is this bird? Like a thrush?

[YellowLeavess]

I’ve never seen this before! Apologies for the terrible quality of the photo. It was about the same size as a blackbird.

Its a mistle thrush

Could it be a fieldfare?

I have just been googling, maybe a song thrush?

Ah, cross post!

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Yes it's a mistle thrush! I had to Google this recently too. Apparently you can tell them apart by spots on their chest. Song thrushes are more uniform and neat in rows, whereas mistle are more like splodges. Mistle body shape also looks a bit more fat or squat 😊

Have you heard of the birdnet app? You can record snippets of a bird's song and it will analyse and tell you what bird it could be. Weirdly addictive!