What kind of bird is this?

[DigIron2]

It just started coming around.Haven't noticed too many like it around here.He is a mean little sucker,wont let any other birds eat.chases them off.

 

[Peachy]

I don't know, but it has a mean look about it. We call them hedge tits, some kind of sparrow?

 

[DigIron2]

It does look like a sparrow,i am not sure how big sparrows can get, it is bigger then a average sparrow that I have seen around here.almost like the size of a small dove or somewhere around that size.

 

[Mackaydon]

Looks PG.
This the season.
Don....

 

[DigIron2]

Didn't even think about that,might have to change the he to a she.That might explain the aggressiveness too

 

[G.I.B.]

Well, from your description it's definitely not the blue-bird of happiness...

 

[Pointman]

I think that is a young mockingbird. They make a sound that I can describe as a shrill sheeeeesh! They are mean as hell especially if they have young. They will even attack hawks, cats or people. Remind me of honey badgers.

 

[DigIron2]

Well, from your description it's definitely not the blue-bird of happiness...

I was thinking a small blue-bird at first site.As you can tell I don't know a whole lot about birds,but it doesn't seem to have the color of a blue-bird.

 

[DigIron2]

I think that is a young mockingbird. They make a sound that I can describe as a shrill sheeeeesh! They are mean as hell especially if they have young. They will even attack hawks, cats or people. Remind me of honey badgers.

I think you are right Pointman.That thing is mean.It keeps everything away from the feeder,even the bigger birds like the cardinals.It is not even scared of me,I can sit on the porch not even three yards from it and it will just sit up there and stare at me with those evil eyes.Pretty neat,are they a common bird?

 

[Tejaas]

That is a very cold mockingbird!


~Tejaas~

 

[Pointman]

I was thinking a small blue-bird at first site.As you can tell I don't know a whole lot about birds,but it doesn't seem to have the color of a blue-bird.

Almost right, they are both in the same family of birds. I think Thrushes. I'm not a birdwatcher, but I have 25,000 acres of woods around my home and I live on 5 acres. I grew up bored and sat around looking at birds all day is all. Now my kids are bored if they don't constantly have the TV or on the phone.

They are very common around here.

 

[jamey]

could it be called a wern,or wren... something like that

 

[fyrffytr1]

I thought it might be a Catbird at first but Pointman has the correct ID.

Northern Mockingbird, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

 

[old digger]

It looks a lot like an Eastern Phoebe.

 

[BosnMate]

Looks like a cold bird to me.

 

[tamrock]

Nice picture. Didn't Anne Murray sing a song about a bird like that

 

[bzbadger]

Looks like the ones our cats bring to us as "gifts" and leave them sometimes headless on the steps

 

[Peachy]

Bingo on the Northern Mockingbird

 

[ivan salis]

if it is as I think --a young mocking bird ---they are in my point of view for their size one of the toughest birds around bar none -- I like them due to their toughness .. I have seen one slam into a red tailed hawk that was trying to eat its young from its nest --knocking the hawk off its perch by the nest then fly after it plucking out its tail feathers ---they will do the same to crows which are their mortal enemies (once enough tail feathers are plucked out a bird can't fly and once "grounded" they are easily killed by cats and other critters) ---if times are tough and food hard to comeby mockingbirds will defend their food sources from all comers ... get a few meal worms and you might be able to make friends with it ... oh BTW mocking birds love for folks to whistle tunes for them to try and copy - they have been known to attack cats by dive bombing them from behind and hitting their tails and will drive anything they think is a threat from their nesting areas --including humans..

as far as the it looks preggers goes its possible -- but in the cold --many birds fluff out their feathers trapping air within to warm up and to act a sort of thermal buffer --as a means of staying warm.

 

[DigIron2]

if it is as I think --a young mocking bird ---they are in my point of view for their size one of the toughest birds around bar none -- I like them due to their toughness .. I have seen one slam into a red tailed hawk that was trying to eat its young from its nest --knocking the hawk off its perch by the nest then fly after it plucking out its tail feathers ---they will do the same to crows which are their mortal enemies (once enough tail feathers are plucked out a bird can't fly and once "grounded" they are easily killed by cats and other critters) ---if times are tough and food hard to comeby mockingbirds will defend their food sources from all comers ... get a few meal worms and you might be able to make friends with it ... oh BTW mocking birds love for folks to whistle tunes for them to try and copy - they have been known to attack cats by dive bombing them from behind and hitting their tails and will drive anything they think is a threat from their nesting areas --including humans..

as far as the it looks preggers goes its possible -- but in the cold --many birds fluff out their feathers trapping air within to warm up and to act a sort of thermal buffer --as a means of staying warm.

thanks, that is very interesting!I think it is one of my favorite birds now after hearing all that about it.I can get quite close to it on its feeder. I say "it's feeder because nothing else is coming aroundI can get within about little more then a yard from it.