Tweet Happy

I’ve got my inner geek on and downloaded the bird watching app, Merlin, onto my phone. It’s brilliant! It listens to the birds tweeting away in the garden and tells you what they are so you can start to learn them and impress your geek friends. “Ooh, hark at the common wood pigeon,” you can exclaim as you amble about your day.

Anyway, on my walk home from work in Staffordshire earlier today the app heard a Clay Coloured Thrush (pictured above), so I googled it and unless Merlin occasionally gets it wrong (or maybe a bird sometimes flies a long way in the wrong direction) then Wikipedia says otherwise – “The clay-colored thrush (Turdus grayi) is a common Middle American bird of the thrush family (Turdidae). It is the national bird of Costa Rica.”

I chuckled at the Latin names (I know I’m an actual grown up – amazing). Then I continued on my way listening to the usual blue tits, house sparrows and blackbirds punctuated by an occasional collared dove. A collared dove is quite exotic in these parts and slightly further up the bird spottage hierarchy than a common wood pigeon, but not quite as exotic as a Clay Coloured Thrush which I’m definitely claiming as spotted for my geekery points. 

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X Deb

Photo by: Sharp Photography