Today's Wildlife Encounter

[Al Fowler]

Where were they Al? On the ground, up a tree, by water?

I was definetly of no relation to a crow etc etc.

I was running across a very open, rural set of boggy, fields.
The fields where ploughed late last year...i'll have a google and see what i come up with. - no trees about. They would fly about sqeeking like a dogs toy and land. Strange wing shape.

Ive got a british countryside book upstairs from when i was a wee nipper...i'll have to find that and see if i can find it.


....its not in the books and ive googled and used some free bird search thingys and cannot find it.

[Fnstein]

A question for all you twitchers.

Whilst out running y'day...i passed a small flock of birds ive seen before but no idea what they are.

They are maily black, abit bigger than a blackbird but with huge wings. The underneath of their wings is white and their call reminded me of a dogs toy being sqeeked.

Fieldfare or Redwing? I can never remember the difference (although I suspect there is a clue in the redwing's name)

[Grouse]

Saw a cormorant on Bottoms res, Longdendale a couple of weeks ago.

[GeoffB]

Fieldfare or Redwing? I can never remember the difference (although I suspect there is a clue in the redwing's name)

Fieldfare seems most likely. Although not black, it is the largest member of the thrush family. Redwing is smaller than a blackbird.

Could be both, of course. They do flock together. Both are winter migrants.

[Grouse]

Could have been a shag...

[The Navigator]

A question for all you twitchers.

Whilst out running y'day...i passed a small flock of birds ive seen before but no idea what they are.

They are maily black, abit bigger than a blackbird but with huge wings. The underneath of their wings is white and their call reminded me of a dogs toy being sqeeked.

Sounds like they could be Fieldfare Al. Winter visitors from Scandinavia / Russia.

[Grouse]

Migrants? I'll be onto the Daily Mail Hotline right away.

[The Navigator]

migrants? I'll Be Onto The Daily Mail Hotline Right Away.

:d:d:d

[Derby Tup]

That made me laugh too Navigator. Nice one Grouse!

[brett]

Nowhere near your head, I'll be bound

Hare on Ilkley Moor