When is a blackbird not a blackbird?

When it's a fieldfare (Turdus pilaris)!

The silly aspect of this Silly Saturday blip is that for some days I've been watching what I thought were juvenile blackbirds, thinking that they were still waiting for their waistcoats to catch up with their tails to turn black all over. Then, it suddenly dawned on me that I was looking at fieldfares, members of the thrush family. They are in their grown-up garb! Doh!

Here is one fieldfare with a genuine blackbird, and a sparrow. Do have a peep at the Extra. There are five birds in the photo, but they're so well camouflaged, it's tricky to spot them: a blackbird, a fieldfare, two sparrows and a dunnock!

Thanks to davidc for suggesting we continue Silly Saturday in memory of its instigator, admirer, but on a first-Saturday-in-the-month basis. Apologies that this isn't sillier, but it is pretty silly of me that it should take days for the penny to drop.

(This weekend our son and the Pugglesworth family are visiting our daughter and Family B. They were all very excited after months of not seeing each other. They sent us a lovely short video of Little Miss B (11 months old tomorrow) giggling at Master Bug Pugglesworth. And today is Mr and Mrs B's fifth wedding anniversary! Don't know where the years go!)