Just seen a bird on a branch, bobbing up and down. It had a grey head and wings, a yellow belly and a long thin tail. About blackbird size and just looked as if it was bouncing up and down on the tree. Occasionally it would wipe it's beak on the branch.
Does anyone know what type of bird it is?
Bird ID?
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And what a lovely looking bird they are.....
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That's what it looked like! Thank you!
Now if I can only figure out what tune it was raving / bouncing to, then we'll be sorted
Now if I can only figure out what tune it was raving / bouncing to, then we'll be sorted
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Stonecoloured wrote:Now if I can only figure out what tune it was raving / bouncing to, then we'll be sorted
That's easy....it was..........................................The Birdie Song
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A nice video here from Heligan.
I have never seen one of these round here, though I do have a wall covered in Erigeron karvinskianus as in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t60h_GjgyKs
I have never seen one of these round here, though I do have a wall covered in Erigeron karvinskianus as in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t60h_GjgyKs
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We have had the same species in our garden 3 times over the last few days we have never seen them before and we have lived here since 1971 I've had my camera at the side of me for two days waiting for its next visit only another 44 years to wait
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Thank you for the video
The bouncing it does as it goes into the tunnel (the 1st time) was what the one I saw was doing!
The bouncing it does as it goes into the tunnel (the 1st time) was what the one I saw was doing!
We must be lucky - we usually have a pair nesting near or in an old sluice gate in the beck just below us. It's lively to see them on the water, bobbing away. If you ever go the large Barton Grange Garden Centre on the A6 north of Preston and have a cuppa in the cafe which overlooks the small river Brock, you will often seen them on the banks and gravel islands there.
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He(?) is loving the wheelbarrow I've got full of water.
Watched him this morning, bobbing along the side and concessionally dipping to grab grubs and lavea (think it's mosquito lavea)
Watched him this morning, bobbing along the side and concessionally dipping to grab grubs and lavea (think it's mosquito lavea)