THIS THREAD IS NOW DISCONTINUED, please add to the new 2020 thread HERE
Often we don't have enough photos to create a full thread so thought I'd start an Odds & Sods thread where you may want to add a pic or two when you don't have enough for their own thread . Feel free to add your rogues gallery here !
I only had a couple of pics today, one a Treecreeper and the other a very hacked off looking Great Egret huddled against the reeds trying to keep warm !
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Regards, Hazel
As you asked so nicely...one of my favourite shots, a Beardie at Radipole from Feb
Cin J
Thanks Cin, they are in the Stour at Blandford, if you know the area?
And thanks for spider ID
Some excellent stuff and I grudgingly admit that you probably deserve to get two otters for getting up that early!!
PimperneBloke said:04:30....yes Hazel, there are 2 of them in a day!!
I'm not convinced. I think it is just a figment of imagination of those suffering from severe sleep deprivation.
PimperneBloke said:A warbler sang beautifully in my ear
You'll get used to the arguments discussions of Willow Warbler vs Chiffchaff on here, but that might be a telling description. Not many warblers are singing at the moment, but if it was singing beautifully, then it was almost certainly a Willow Warbler. Chiffchaffs have a repetitive call that while it might be distinctive or even evocative, I think few would actually describe it as singing beautifully Listen to a recording of the Chiffchaffs call/song and you'll easily recognise if that was your bird, anyway.
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Kind regards, Ann
Lot to learn
Juvenile male (I think)
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Tony
My Flickr Photostream
Well you've probably heard of the term "Manky Mallard" but have you heard of a "Ganky Goose" ? I hadn't until today ! however, I prefer to call these types of birds with colour variation or altered pigmentation as in this Greylag case Leucistic ! No bird really deserves the term manky (or ganky) as in no way are they inferior, mucky or grubby as the unfair use of the word manky suggests, although the word seems to be originally derived from the meaning "lacking" which would be more apt.
It was keeping in close company with two Canada Geese