Santa Robin

Reminds me of the lovely book "The White Robin" by Miss Read.

leucistic – new word for me. Had to look it up. Learn something every day on GN.

Often have blackbirds with white patches in my garden.

There`s a pic on there of a leucistic sparrow on Lindisfarne, but it looks a bit whiter than mine.

more here

It was leucistic!

Could be albino. It does happen.

Well, it was associating with loads of other sparrows! They were also very tame, came right up to us for food.

What do they do to them up there?

Numberplease's photo which cannot possibly be a sparrow!!!!!

We saw what we think was a sparrow whilst visiting Lindisfarne in September, with those sort of unusual markings. We thought it was a sparrow because apart from the markings, it looked like one, and was with other sparrows. I`ve put it`s picture on my profile.

Unusual plumage or not, they're still feisty little birds - lovely!

So, I see there's another non-mine-pie household on GN.

No point. Nobody eats 'em in oor hoose. Re all the blether about vitamin D though, am thinking pork fat is a source. <goes off to make bacon butty for lunch>

PS Bet haggis is good too. Maybe this is why the scots survived.

Go and make some mince pies