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That's not a bad garden tick because, despite the failing numbers, song thrushes are five times more likely to be spotted in gardens than mistle thrushes.
"The Mistle Thrushes have more distinct spots and the Redwings are identified by a distinct stripe of white over their eyes and a reddish patch on their flanks."
Mistle thrushes can survive winter frosts and snow, but the current milder weather more suits sitting on a clutch of eggs.
Paul Walton, of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, saw the two mistle thrushes as he sat at the lights in busy traffic, yards from the M8.
WARRING Mistle Thrushes have called a truce now the breeding season is over.
Mistle Thrushes are the greyer-backed, bigger cousin of the familiar Song Thrush, with blotchier spots on the breast.
"Two Fieldfare, eight Mistle Thrushes, Corn Buntings, Mipits and Skylarks .
Reserve warden Paul Bateman said: "We have a wide variety of birds on the reserve including woodpeckers, sparrowhawks, tawny owls and mistle thrushes.
Marauding mistle thrushes who attack in flocks of over 50.
Overall, the area provides a wonderful habitat for wildlife, which presently includes pied wagtails, greenfinches, bullfinches and chaffinches, blue tits, coal tits and mistle thrushes, together with buzzards, sparrow hawks and kestrels, plus three varieties of woodpecker.
He is also accused of using two other cages at Great Standrop and Het Burn to catch or kill wild birds and being in possession of two dead mistle thrushes.
MISTLE Thrushes have started to tune up already in parks and gardens.