Bird Watching a Relaxing Hobby

[Tim Marlow]

I'd forgot about this interesting thread. Thanks for the reminder Dan!

I took these from our camper window a week or so ago.

We always take a bird feeder with us. Load it up and wait to see what comes along.....

Unmistakable.
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"What are you looking at!"
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She flew up into a tree....
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...only to have this obnoxious creature barge her off her perch.
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Cheers.
Ron

Very nice shots Ron. Particularly like the colourful crow :thumb2:

[CarolsHusband]

Great whites are much the same size as Herons, and have very long legs and necks just like them. They also compete for pretty much the same habitat, wetlands, living on small fish and eels etc. Little egrets are slightly smaller, and live in similar areas. Cattle egrets are pretty big as well, but, as the name suggests, live in fields hunting in the churned up mud. They are more easily distinguishable in the breeding season because the Brest feathers are coloured.

Thanks Tim. Having seen them flying ( I may have posted pics on here a while back) I'm pretty sure they are Great Whites. They fly like Herons and are, technically speaking, flipping huge !

/ pic from last year.

[Tim Marlow]

Yep, that’s a great white alright….I think it was the hunched up stance that confused me….I always think of them as flying dinosaurs, a bit like Bitterns….they remind me of pterodactyls with feathers….

[Lee Drennen]

Six Great White Egrets yesterday. The two Muscovys our ours, and shouldn't be in the field. Yes, I'm talking to you two....

What a beautiful pic thanks for sharing

[Lee Drennen]

Great whites are much the same size as Herons, and have very long legs and necks just like them. They also compete for pretty much the same habitat, wetlands, living on small fish and eels etc. Little egrets are slightly smaller, and live in similar areas. Cattle egrets are pretty big as well, but, as the name suggests, live in fields hunting in the churned up mud. They are more easily distinguishable in the breeding season because the Brest feathers are coloured.
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Cattle egret….

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Great white and Little egrets…

Cattle egrets are rarer, but now breed in the UK. Go back thirty years or so and they were all rare birds….

Tim. Thanks for sharing some great looking pics.

[Lee Drennen]

This evening I caught some Doves and a Woodpecker eating at the feeder.

[Tim Marlow]

Tim. Thanks for sharing some great looking pics.

Not my pics I’m afraid Lee. I just used them for illustration….

[rtfoe]

Lovely pictures guys...
My daughter always looks out for the single white heron on the riverbank when we pass the river every evening when we drive home.
Ron, I swear I thought I'll hear a double boom... good thing you use a camera rather than a double barrel shotgun. :smiling2:

Cheers,
Richard

[Dave Ward]

Been watching this for a while - at first I thought it was a crow, but the beak looks too thick, so I reckon it's a raven.................
Dave

[Tim Marlow]

May well be right Dave. I find them very hard to distinguish myself. Easiest way is by the call, but if they don’t want to talk, then it’s down to guesswork regarding neck feathers… :thumb2:

[Dave Ward]

May well be right Dave. I find them very hard to distinguish myself. Easiest way is by the call, but if they don’t want to talk, then it’s down to guesswork regarding neck feathers… :thumb2:

If it had flown, the tail would give it away - but that tail does look wider than a crows' - of course it flew away as soon as I took my eyes off it!
Dave

[Tim Marlow]

I recon that’s Quoth Dave….

[Dave Ward]

I recon that’s Quoth Dave….

Blimey,
took me a few minutes ( Nevermore ) to get the literary reference!!!! :thumb2:
Dave

[Tim Marlow]

I got it from Terry Prachett……who obviously read Poe differently to everyone else LOL….

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Don't tend to get too many where I live now as everyone's got cats in this road, my old house I had a couple of these characters though