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Richard Ford

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I have recently had an E-mail from a gentlemen near Rutland who has a strange bird visiting the bird table outside his office window. He has managed to photograph it and I have uploaded the picture below.

I suspect it is defiantly an escape and I suspect it is some kind of Weaver, but apart from that I have no idea.

I am sure someone here can help.
Thanks in advance.

Richard
 

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I don't know what it is but it's certainly a pretty looking bird. Definitely an escapee I'd hazard. Now why can't I find something like that in my garde?
 
One May in about 1979 I saw one of these from about a mile away, on a telegraph ariel... at that range I'd decided that it was a Bee-eater. I started running. At half the range I realised it was smaller than I had first thought and I was thinking maybe Black-headed Bunting... then at 1/4 of a mile I realised it was a weaver.
 
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