what bird

[span130502]

Could they have been treecreepers ??

[miker]

i think too big for tree creepers

[armybloke]

Anything like one of these?

 

Is that a Wryneck?

[armybloke]

nothing like either of those!!! ill have to contact bill oddie lol

 

Why do you suggest a woodpecker - long bill, the stance, body shape? We can narrow this down til we find what you saw!

[janey]

Is that a Wryneck?

 

Gold star that man

[armybloke]

Gold star that man

 

Hey thanks! I do a bot of birding (feathered variety) and came across this some time back hence the spotter badge from you

 

I am curious as I am from 'miker' neck of the woods and if it is a fancy beast I want to see it!!

[janey]

Hey thanks! I do a bot of birding (feathered variety) and came across this some time back hence the spotter badge from you

 

I am curious as I am from 'miker' neck of the woods and if it is a fancy beast I want to see it!!

 

You'll be slumming it at the Portland Bill onservatory next

 

I like a good ident' challenge too. I'm working with three obsessive birders at the moment and I guess they are having an influence on me, whether I likes it or not. I'm assuming a woodpeckerish outline for this beastie, so for my next random guess, how about a bit of exotica and a juvenile hoopoo?

[APC]

Pterodactyl.

[miker]

if i can explain to me mum how to work my camera , ill get her to take some pics, (shes 84) if its any help she lives in micheldever ,farm land,half a dozen houses near by, so very quiet,she said that a great spotted woody comes to her feeder also,and has identified a nut hatch too, so she is quite up on her birds, this has become a bit of a mission now!!

[armybloke]

if i can explain to me mum how to work my camera , ill get her to take some pics, (shes 84) if its any help she lives in micheldever ,farm land,half a dozen houses near by, so very quiet,she said that a great spotted woody comes to her feeder also,and has identified a nut hatch too, so she is quite up on her birds, this has become a bit of a mission now!!

 

Looking forward to seeing the bird. Micheldever woods are a good haunt of mine - love the big eared beeches and the tallest tree in the world laid flat to walk along!!