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Can A Blackbird Ever Be Mistaken For A Thrush?

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Stargazer | 12:23 Thu 30th May 2013 | Twitching & Birdwatching
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I have a bird feeding from my table feeder at the moment (from a suet slab)that looks like a thrush but the breast is less distinctively speckled than the normal thrush. I wonder if it could be a female blackbird with a slightly speckled chest. Otherwise could it be a thrush with a less than "thrush like" breast speckling?
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Blackbirds are members of the Thrush family. Females and especially young blackbirds can show lightly spotted breasts
Thrushes usually have paler breasts- but know a lot more tunes. Get it to sing for you.
It could be a female or a juvenile male.
Heck ! I could probably mistake one for an emu.
I took some pictures the other year of what I thought was a Blackbird feeding a Thrush, turned out it was a young Blackbird.
http://i791.photobucket.com/albums/yy197/D97x7/018-2.jpg
http://i791.photobucket.com/albums/yy197/D97x7/016-1.jpg
So, yes, a Blackbird can be mistaken for a Thrush.
If in doubt then endeavour to look carefully at the bird's legs. The blackbirds are somewhat darker than those of a thrush.:-

http://freespace.virgin.net/conserving.bevan/songthrush2.htm

Al.

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