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Know Your Birds? - Edit - Not That Kind!

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  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,561
    Saw a Red Kite for the second time in a week whilst walking the dog this evening. 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    Macronate said:

    Hall Place, Bexley today.

    No idea what it is but it kept dropping/diving at what looks like the dried area.
    Marsh Harrier? 
  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,456

    Two critically endangered parrots have escaped London Zoo.

    Blue-throated macaws Lily and Margot were on a routine flight when they flew out of their enclosure on Monday.

    The pair have taken detours and hidden high up in the trees in the past but have never completely disappeared until now.

    London Zoo has asked for any sightings to be reported to them, adding the two blue and yellow-feathered birds were likely to stick together.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c04l90xq993o


    Blue-throated macaws Lily and Margot sit on a branch in an enclosure


    Lily and Margot took flight on Monday and have not been since

  • Swindon_Addick
    Swindon_Addick Posts: 1,640
    Macronate said:

    Hall Place, Bexley today.

    No idea what it is but it kept dropping/diving at what looks like the dried area.
    Looks like a Kestrel to me. They tend to hover over grassy areas and then dive down whenever they spot a mouse or vole.
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,682
    Reported in today's Mirror - a scarlet tanager - although it doesn't look very scarlet.  :|




  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    edited November 2024
    Saw a Buzzard the other day whilst in the car. I had moved over in a lane to let a car by, and this surprisingly large brown/yellow bird (about the size of a long chicken) flew slowly across my bonnet at about 4 foot (whilst giving me a nasty beaky look!). I was dumbstruck, and had to look it up when I got in, wasn't my idea of how I thought a buzzard looked. Apparently a few nest around here.

    This is the look it gave me!


  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,256
    Regents Park last Sunday.

  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026

    A Cattle Egret enjoying the cricket season.  It isn't really a cricket, it's a grasshopper. I believe, a Lamenting Grasshopper. Bet it was lamenting this encounter.
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,902
    Stig said:

    A Cattle Egret enjoying the cricket season.  It isn't really a cricket, it's a grasshopper. I believe, a Lamenting Grasshopper. Bet it was lamenting this encounter.
    Did you take that pic ? If so ..Good show that man 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    Stig has reached levels of Birding that scarcely seem possible tbh
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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    lolwray said:
    Stig said:

    A Cattle Egret enjoying the cricket season.  It isn't really a cricket, it's a grasshopper. I believe, a Lamenting Grasshopper. Bet it was lamenting this encounter.
    Did you take that pic ? If so ..Good show that man 
    Thanks. Yes, I got it last week in Mallorca. This lone Egret was patrolling the towpath next to the main canal in the s'Albufera Nature Reserve (highly recommend). It was doing quite well feeding itself, but it had a droopy wing, which I guess is why it got separated from its mates and why it was so easy for me to get that close. We found the others in a field about a mile away. It also had an infestation of bugs in its feathers. I don't know, but my guess is that these birds undertake mutual grooming and that a lone individual quickly gets quite cooty.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    Leuth said:
    Stig has reached levels of Birding that scarcely seem possible tbh
    Ha ha, you should see some of the junk I take. 
    https://uk.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=jarvo&verifiable=any

  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    Not showing off at all. 'Audouin's Gull' yes yes well done. 'Black Winged Stilt' okay stop 
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    Stig said:
    Leuth said:
    Stig has reached levels of Birding that scarcely seem possible tbh
    Ha ha, you should see some of the junk I take. 
    https://uk.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=jarvo&verifiable=any

    If those are your junk Stig, I might as well give up  :)
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    I didn't take this photo, but I was on the birdwatching cruise with the photographer when it was taken.
    One of the two White-Tailed Eagles now semi-resident in Poole Harbour.

  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,561
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
    I didn't take this photo, but I was on the birdwatching cruise with the photographer when it was taken.
    One of the two White-Tailed Eagles now semi-resident in Poole Harbour.

    Obviously can’t read.
  • Billy_Mix
    Billy_Mix Posts: 2,707
    Macronate said:

    Hall Place, Bexley today.

    No idea what it is but it kept dropping/diving at what looks like the dried area.
    Does it have a forked tail? As big or bigger than a buzzard? Multicoloured russets, browns and paler sections?
    Could be a red kite
  • Billy_Mix
    Billy_Mix Posts: 2,707
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
    I didn't take this photo, but I was on the birdwatching cruise with the photographer when it was taken.
    One of the two White-Tailed Eagles now semi-resident in Poole Harbour.

    Count me 40 shades of green with envy
    A magnificent creature and a tremendous reintroduction success story
    Despite what the villainous "field sports" industry will tell you
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,841
    clive said:

    Two critically endangered parrots have escaped London Zoo.

    Blue-throated macaws Lily and Margot were on a routine flight when they flew out of their enclosure on Monday.

    The pair have taken detours and hidden high up in the trees in the past but have never completely disappeared until now.

    London Zoo has asked for any sightings to be reported to them, adding the two blue and yellow-feathered birds were likely to stick together.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c04l90xq993o


    Blue-throated macaws Lily and Margot sit on a branch in an enclosure


    Lily and Margot took flight on Monday and have not been since

    In case anyone missed it, found safe and sound a couple of weeks back.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2e7xdmy14mo
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    Big William said:
    clive said:

    Two critically endangered parrots have escaped London Zoo.

    Blue-throated macaws Lily and Margot were on a routine flight when they flew out of their enclosure on Monday.

    The pair have taken detours and hidden high up in the trees in the past but have never completely disappeared until now.

    London Zoo has asked for any sightings to be reported to them, adding the two blue and yellow-feathered birds were likely to stick together.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c04l90xq993o


    Blue-throated macaws Lily and Margot sit on a branch in an enclosure


    Lily and Margot took flight on Monday and have not been since

    In case anyone missed it, found safe and sound a couple of weeks back.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2e7xdmy14mo
    They wouldn't have enjoyed (or likely survived) this weather...
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  • RedPanda
    RedPanda Posts: 4,987
    I sometimes see a cormorant or two showing off around half a mile from the Thames. This is in Greenhithe:
  • Hartleypete
    Hartleypete Posts: 4,699
    On our bird feeder.
  • Billy_Mix
    Billy_Mix Posts: 2,707
    RedPanda said:
    I sometimes see a cormorant or two showing off around half a mile from the Thames. This is in Greenhithe:
    They love a fishing lake or a canal
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,762
    Billy_Mix said:
    RedPanda said:
    I sometimes see a cormorant or two showing off around half a mile from the Thames. This is in Greenhithe:
    They love a fishing lake or a canal
    Last month we had a trip to Folkestone and watched some cormorants in the harbour. It is fascinating to see how far they swim underwater. They always pop up far from where they originally dived.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    Can’t beat a bit of cock when you’re on holiday 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    Cormorants are greedy so and sos. I saw this one with a Pipefish a couple of months ago. The Pipefish put up a good fight but after a couple of minutes the Cormorant manoeuvred it into position and swallowed it whole.

     
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,621

  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026

  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,729
    All I know for a quiz is if it's not a fish it's a bird.
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,682
    This photo by Tapani Linnanmaki made the Comedy wildlife final.

    A White tailed Eagle - but not on a good day  :/


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