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Know Your Birds? - Edit - Not That Kind!

Spotted this in the garden from the kitchen window anyone know what it’s called? (Apart from a bird!).
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  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,650
    Green woodpecker
  • Green Woodpecker. Didn’t we have a similar thread a year or so back?
  • It’s most likely feeding on ants.
  • Green Woodpecker. Didn’t we have a similar thread a year or so back?
    not from me, it’s never been in my garden!
  • Pecky Mcpeckface 
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,693

  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,734
    Not sure just call it mate.
  • Not sure just call it mate.
    Your right, I do need a name, think I’ll call it leeeburn!
  • king addick
    king addick Posts: 3,768
    Spotted this in the garden from the kitchen window anyone know what it’s called? (Apart from a bird!).
    Tell him his ciders shit!
  • The Prince-e-Paul
    The Prince-e-Paul Posts: 6,712
    edited January 2023
    I know buggar all about birds but have been watching these little feckers for hours. Far more entertaining than watching Charlton in the good half of a game 

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  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,300
    edited January 2023
    Great Tits?

    [insert Kenneth Williams gif here] 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,489
    One at the bottom looks like some sort of finch 
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,326


    Will a JPeg do? 
  • Great Tits?

    [insert Kenneth Williams gif here] 

    Tits like coconuts.
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,650
    It’s most likely feeding on ants.
    Think you're thinking of an ant eater
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,930
     

    Have seen this in the garden over the last few weeks, a Michaelmas Blackbird
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,291
     

    Have seen this in the garden over the last few weeks, a Michaelmas Blackbird
    I've never heard that name for a Ringed Ouzel before so I looked it up. Suggested it was Dorset terminology. 
  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,408
    edited January 2023
    Spotted this in the garden from the kitchen window anyone know what it’s called? (Apart from a bird!).
    It appears in all likelihood to be a male Leaf Shitting Woodpecker.

    They make a terrible mess of my garden at the very end of summer and for some months after.
  • I know buggar all about birds but have been watching these little feckers for hours. Far more entertaining than watching Charlton in the good half of a game 
    FYI the difference between great tits and blue tits can be determined by the colour on their bonces.  


  • LennyLowrent
    LennyLowrent Posts: 2,711
    edited January 2023
    The great ones also bonces more..?

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  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,408
    Any ideas with this one ? had to crop the phot so its not so clear  
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  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,348
    I have a patrol of these apex predator bastards hang around my Manor 

    One of them dropped a rat, from height, into my back garden when I was showing some people round. I'm not going to lie, after we all screamed and shat ourselves I though raining rats was what comes before the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse 

    I call him Blitzkrieg, bringer of death from above 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,489
    Carter said:
    I have a patrol of these apex predator bastards hang around my Manor 

    One of them dropped a rat, from height, into my back garden when I was showing some people round. I'm not going to lie, after we all screamed and shat ourselves I though raining rats was what comes before the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse 

    I call him Blitzkrieg, bringer of death from above 
    Incredible! Sadly, they're being persecuted and numbers are falling fast. Nobody's being held accountable either because grouse farmers are extremely good at covering their crimes 
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,408
    Had them in my garden a few times feeding on the Starlings  
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,489
    fadgadget said:
    Any ideas with this one ? had to crop the phot so its not so clear  
    This is near-impossible. Best I've got is some sort of crossbill? Idk
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,734
    Quite an apt advert for a thread full of tits.


  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,348
    Leuth said:
    Carter said:
    I have a patrol of these apex predator bastards hang around my Manor 

    One of them dropped a rat, from height, into my back garden when I was showing some people round. I'm not going to lie, after we all screamed and shat ourselves I though raining rats was what comes before the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse 

    I call him Blitzkrieg, bringer of death from above 
    Incredible! Sadly, they're being persecuted and numbers are falling fast. Nobody's being held accountable either because grouse farmers are extremely good at covering their crimes 
    They are definitely increasing where I live, possibly because of them adapting their habitat and moving away from grouse havens but to be honest there have always been a lot of birds of prey round here and they have plenty of food, the poor noisy asbo starlings often get eaten as do collar doves, pigeons, mice and rats when they don't drop them, when I took that photo of Blitzkrieg there was another 2 of them in the garden looking like they wanted it 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,489
    Picture the scene. Your boy Leuth, 36th birthday, wants to go on the Abraham Heights cable car. His extremely reasonable partner observes that is it 26 quid each for a tourist trap. He sullenly agrees and tags behind as they pass back along the Derwent. And then he looks down. 



    Been waiting my whole life to see one of these. And it happens on my birthday!!