Re: Bird Words

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Apr 10, 2021 11:40 am

There are now three of them! dontpanic

by Zarniwoop Mon Apr 19, 2021 3:48 pm

Sitting outside having a Coffee and a Red Kite glides over about 30ft up.....a bit further away by the time I got my camera organised but I have never seen one so close!
Wow!

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Apr 19, 2021 5:55 pm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Apr 24, 2021 5:49 pm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Apr 26, 2021 1:31 pm

An hour or so ago, there were a couple of birds on my porch roof. They were in the tit/finch envelope but not of a type I've seen before. They were all grey but with different shades of grey, creating a pattern on their plumage. They also had longer tails than I'm used to finches and large family of small passerine birds possessing. I shall now Google to see if I can identify what they were.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Apr 26, 2021 1:37 pm

I have Googled and have been unable to identify them.

by Zarniwoop Mon Apr 26, 2021 6:45 pm

Long Tailed Tit?
Spotted Flycatcher?
Chiffchaff?
Dunnock?
Wagtail?

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Apr 26, 2021 8:20 pm

Long Tailed Tit - Too chubby. Markings wrong.

Spotted Flycatcher - Different markings. Tail not long enough.

Chiffchaff - Different markings and colour. Tail not long enough.

Dunnock - Different colort. Tail not long enough.

Wagtail - My first thought was that they were some kind of wagtail but, as I watched them, they resolutely failed to wag their tails.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Apr 30, 2021 9:35 am

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:An hour or so ago, there were a couple of birds on my porch roof. They were in the tit/finch envelope but not of a type I've seen before. They were all grey but with different shades of grey, creating a pattern on their plumage. They also had longer tails than I'm used to finches and large family of small passerine birds possessing. I shall now Google to see if I can identify what they were.

One of them was hanging from the brickwork above my kitchen window, a few minutes ago and pecking at a cobweb.

I can only assume it was stealing a spider's lunch. scared

Either that, or eating the spider. llama

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Apr 30, 2021 9:36 am

I'm going to have to get out my book of bird identification and find out what they are.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Apr 30, 2021 11:34 am

My book of bird identification has been able to furnish no answers.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue May 25, 2021 11:06 am

A raven flew over my head, this morning, when I was on the way to the shops.

I know it was a raven and not a crow because it was making the same quacky noises as this...

...which is what made me look upwards in the first place to see what kind of bird such odd noises were coming from. happy

by Nightjar Tue May 25, 2021 12:14 pm

Are you sure it wasn't a duck?

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue May 25, 2021 12:30 pm

I got a good look at it.

It was not a duck.

by Nightjar Tue May 25, 2021 12:33 pm

Eider double checked if I were you.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat May 29, 2021 9:29 am

A crow and a buzzard are having a dogfight above Norton water tower. dontpanic

by Nightjar Sat May 29, 2021 1:56 pm

Where's the punchline?

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Jun 03, 2021 6:44 pm

I've managed to get a much closer look at one of the birds of prey that have been hanging around the area, when one flew down my street, being attacked by a couple of crows.

Now I'm confused about what it was, as the top of its wings were a uniform sandy-red colour. Looking at pictures on the Internet, the wings of common buzzards, honey buzzards and red kites don't match that colour scheme. dunno

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Jun 03, 2021 7:29 pm

In other news, I have also seen a small flock of geese today. happy

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jun 04, 2021 11:04 am

Buzzard close encounter!

One flew over, a few minutes ago, when I was walking up the path. It was mere yards away from me and was making the same sound as the ones in this video.

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