Show us ya birds !

[Adam Bourne]

Good shout but it doesnt look like a Ferruginous to me . It has that classic gos yellow stare and the even more classic trashed tail

Ferrougs are rough legged aswell and have tiny feet which is the bit we cant see !

yes now looking you could be right about the goshawk mate, just missing some of there zebra stripes on its breast??? hybrid???

[born2trot]

yes now looking you could be right about the goshawk mate, just missing some of there zebra stripes on its breast??? hybrid???

 

As you correctly pointed out maj it is a first year bird so the stripes etc wont appear until the following year . Its certainly odd looking being so pale which made me think it could be a hybrid there again it could just be a very light individual. The legs and feet would have been the clincher but hard to make out in the photo.

P.S I've been out with ferrougs many times and there highly aggressive and powerful but you need the right type of ground ( hilly ) for them to be successful really . They certainly added a curiosty factor

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

heres mine for today!

 

[Garfield]

Picture taken from a mates back garden behind his fence,the Kingfisher visits now and again feeding in a dyke on minnows.

[David Humphries]

Mandarin Duck, with a wood duck in the foreground

 

For some reason I've only just seen these posts of your Roger.

 

Stunning

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Picture taken from a mates back garden behind his fence,the Kingfisher visits now and again feeding in a dyke on minnows.

 

 

What great fortune

 

 

heres mine for today!

 

 

They're just magnificent, aren't they

 

 

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[Fungus]

Not very exceptional, a blackbird in one's garden, but this combination of one of the wood mice living in my back garden competing for food with a male blackbird is something worthwhile sharing, I guess.

[David Humphries]

Not very exceptional, a blackbird in one's garden, but this combination of one of the wood mice living in my back garden competing for food with a male blackbird is something worthwhile sharing, I guess.

 

very good study Gerrit

 

 

 

 

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[felixthelogchopper]

I'm surprised that the blackbird didn't go for the mouse.

[Fungus]

I'm surprised that the blackbird didn't go for the mouse.

 

Felix,

At first the mouse was accompagnied by a robin that was so afraid of the mouse that he kept quite a distance from him. While I was looking for my camera, the blackbird came and chased the robin away.

The mouse ignored the change of birds completely and the blackbird seemed to be too puzzled with this beviour to even consider attacking it while the mouse ran back and forth to its nesting hole to store the sunflower seeds available. This went on for more than ten minutes until the mouse had taken all the seeds as you can see in the first photo that was taken after the second.

In the following photo you can see how the blackbird even reacted disturbed on the sudden movements of the continuously returning mouse.

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Edited February 17, 2012 by Fungus