Small White Speck

[Ruby]

So what do you make of this then??

Here's a bit of help..... the small white speck in the centre of your monitor is not 4 dead pixels, nor the early signs of glaucoma - it is actually the bird in question.....


Ruby

[Mabel]

Spoonbill? Sloping profile and what seems to be a long bill lead me to that. As does the yellow-white plumage. Probably WAAAY off...

[David FG]

Spoonbill? Sloping profile and what seems to be a long bill lead me to that. As does the yellow-white plumage. Probably WAAAY off...


Two of us way off then. I'm for Spoonbill as well.

[Ruby]

Waaaaay off....

[Mabel]

Is that a curved bill then? Leucistic Curlew?? Lol! (Last try, honest!)

[Ruby]

Leucistic Curlew!! - are you having a laugh??

3:-)

...ahem....

Bang on, actually....

[Woody]

Cattle egret? Only 'cos it looks like Sheppey!

Woody

[Joe Ray]

Snow Goose

[Ruby]

Sorry...

Mabel had it right - it is actually a Curlew...


Ruby

[robinm]

I wonder if it's the bird that sometimes turns up at Oare.

[Ruby]

I wonder if it's the bird that sometimes turns up at Oare.

Yep, That's just what it is Robin.... I haven't been to Oare much in recent weeks, but had heard about the ghostly Curlew.

As it happened, I didn't have to go looking for it - it was just flying around with a bunch of BH Gulls, making a fearful racket - up near Dan's Dock on Sunday...


All the best.... Ruby