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Jim Eddie

Bird I.D.
« on: 18/12/2011 at 14:15 »
When I was away, the Mrs told me about this strange bird in the garden. I could not make head nor tail of it from the description she gave. Well I was looking out the kitchen window this morning and there it is, I've no idea what it is. Woodcok size and beak like a woodcock,but with the colouring of a moorhen, funny thing is it seems to walk up trees quite the thing, gone by the time a looked out the camera though.
Looking it up the only thing i could see ws a Water rail , but I don't live near water (apart from the sea) and thats not exactly a tree dweller. Any ideas ?

 :z18

Jim 

Iain Goolager

Re: Bird I.D.
« Reply #1 on: 18/12/2011 at 14:24 »
Welcome home Jim,

The bird is more than likely next doors cat  :X1 the result of drinking Glycol for a month, tavareesh!  :X2

Iain

Loxiafan

Re: Bird I.D.
« Reply #2 on: 18/12/2011 at 16:51 »
Sounds like Water Rail.....except for the bit about it walking up trees !  :roll

Water Rails will be irrupting in to the UK as continental Europe freezes so most likely a winter visitor and they could turn up anywhere but will settle near pools, marshes etc.

Lindsay

Jim Eddie

Re: Bird I.D.
« Reply #3 on: 18/12/2011 at 19:02 »
Lindsay yes thats the nearest I could find but I saw something about a Hoopoe which does have the tree dwelling charecteristics.

 :z18

Jim

flyfisher666

Re: Bird I.D.
« Reply #4 on: 19/12/2011 at 22:15 »
 Colours like a woodcock and tree dwelling... A wryneck? 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Wryneck

Irvine Ross

Re: Bird I.D.
« Reply #5 on: 20/12/2011 at 08:17 »

Sandy Nelson

Re: Bird I.D.
« Reply #6 on: 20/12/2011 at 08:48 »
Treecreeper??

http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/t/treecreeper/index.aspx


That was the only thing i could think of as well, but thought it might be a bit small. If it is, its well spotted :z16

Sandy

Jim Eddie

Re: Bird I.D.
« Reply #7 on: 20/12/2011 at 09:03 »
Treecreeper??

http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/t/treecreeper/index.aspx

Quite common out our way.

Irvine

Irvine  / Sandy no much bigger than a tree creeper, wood cock size but not colouration.
 :z18

This is the closest to what it looks like http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/w/waterrail/index.aspx

Jim

Loxiafan

Re: Bird I.D.
« Reply #8 on: 20/12/2011 at 17:33 »
Very unlikely to be Hoopoe - buffy orange colour, lots of white flashes and is only an autumn migrant, usually in to October possibly early November. Similarly, Wryneck is mainly an Autumn migrant though a few do breed sporadically in Speyside - no long bill either. A bill as long as a Woodcock suggests a wader of some type. Some birds can get deformed bills that are too long which is another possibility.

Was it walking up the tree trunk or only perching in the tree ?

Lindsay

Jim Eddie

Re: Bird I.D.
« Reply #9 on: 20/12/2011 at 17:42 »
Lindsay
No it walks up the tree to a height of around 6 feet, got a better look today the beak is perhaps not as long as awood cock, its colouring is more like a moorhen.

 :z18

Jim

Mike Barrio

Re: Bird I.D.
« Reply #10 on: 20/12/2011 at 18:03 »
You'll have to keep the camera somewhere handy for a few days Jim :wink

Don't rule out a young Moorhen, I've seen them in the trees at Haddo, but very rarely :z3

Cheers
Mike

Jim Eddie

Re: Bird I.D.
« Reply #11 on: 20/12/2011 at 20:46 »
You'll have to keep the camera somewhere handy for a few days Jim :wink

Don't rule out a young Moorhen, I've seen them in the trees at Haddo, but very rarely :z3

Cheers
Mike
Mike
You could be right, does look a bit like a young moorhen, just a long way from any water apart from the North sea

Jim

Mike Barrio

Re: Bird I.D.
« Reply #12 on: 20/12/2011 at 21:05 »
Something like this Jim?


Euan Innes

Re: Bird I.D.
« Reply #13 on: 21/12/2011 at 05:44 »
Jim,

How about one of these?
http://woodpeckersofeurope.info/?q=black_woodpecker

Quite rare around these parts, but not unknown, and it doesn't look much like the one we know and love.

 :z1

Jim Eddie

Re: Bird I.D.
« Reply #14 on: 21/12/2011 at 17:32 »
Aye looks like a young tree climbing Waterhen a long way from home  :wink

 :z18

Jim

 




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