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03-02-12, 08:55 AM
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Good morning
Hello, I have joined to try and get a piece of bird identity information from knowledgeable people. It is a sad situation I am afraid.
A cat killed a fledgeling in my garden. It had been born in a nesting box and I had first thought when seeing the mother, that it was a very unusual family - I have minimum knowledge about garden birds. Obviously the mutilated little corpse is incomplete but I have preserved it in my freezer in order to give a description. I have trawled hundreds of bird pictures in books and online and cannot match it up. I will save the details of colouring and features till next time in case there are members who feel too sickened (as I am) to have to read more. Viv 
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03-02-12, 01:50 PM
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Hi Peter and thank you.
The bird has white cheeks and a yellow chest. The head - I originally thought black but it has a bluish tinge - and a yellow tuft on the neck. The back and wings, which I originally thought 'black and white', the 'black' is a dark grey wiith blue tinge. The tail is missing so I can't say an exact length, but what I have is less than three inches. It's beak is so tiny and hardly curved. In the nesting box, the nest was from grasses, mini twig-ends and shreds of conifer. The blue shades, I believe, have arrived since the poor little thing has been in my freezer. I had a theory, probably way out. One neighbor has an aviary, and I wondered if the mother bird - it is a long while since I saw her - was an expectant exotic that escaped from there. Viv
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04-02-12, 01:45 PM
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Peter, thank you very much for trying to help.
I have now re-posted most of this under 'What is that bird', as I am sure not everyone reads under the heading 'Good morning'! Thanks again. Viv
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05-02-12, 09:34 AM
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Welcome to the forum Viv,what a sad find.....I see that Dave has helped and that your bird is a possible Great Tit.
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05-02-12, 04:24 PM
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A warm welcome to the forum Viv. When did this event happen as it seems very early if it was recent to have fledgling Tits in the UK?
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Judith. Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. - Frank Lloyd Wright
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06-02-12, 08:37 AM
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