Can you help me identify this bird please (1 Viewer)

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usignuolo

New member

• May 14, 2004

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I saw this bird on my garden wall in Twickenham on 8 May around 10 am. I wondered if it was wounded as it wasn't moving and was being attacked by two crows who live in one of the trees. But when I opened the back door it flew off. There are no ponds around here although the Thames isn't far away. I have never seen anything similar in the garden before. I assume it is a heron, is it any paticular kind of heron?

 

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very boring banned member

New member

• May 14, 2004

• #2

Ardea cinerea.

 

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BlueTiercel

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• May 14, 2004

• #3

looks a lot like a great blue heron from this angle

 

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BlueTiercel

Member

• May 14, 2004

• #4

ok, yer in london, im stupid, Ardea cinerea. how does that sound?

 

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Dave B Smith

Well-known member

• May 14, 2004

• #5

Grey Heron

 

mike coleman

BF Irregular

• May 14, 2004

• #6

It's a Grey Heron which probably fancied a rest in some nice shrubbery to get away from the noise and clattering of its heronry. Either that or its a rugby fan, and was a little confused to find no game on, so was wondering what to tell the missus and kids when it got home.....

 

IanF

Moderator

• May 14, 2004

• #7

Hi usignuolo,

On behalf of Admin and the Moderators welcome to Bird Forum :t:

Your garden visitor does look like a young Grey Heron to me too.

We get them in the garden occasionally, usually sat on the fences or garage roofs checking out the neighbours ponds for fish

 

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Bluetail

Senior Moment

• May 14, 2004

• #8

I live in a surbuban setting. All the gardens in the area are pretty tiny, yet on several occasions over the years I've seen a Grey Heron perch on the roof of a nearby house. Always the same house. I guess they must have a small pond.

 

Ben Dickinson

Well-known member

• May 15, 2004

• #9

Aye, a nice grey heron. Always nice to see em occasionally flying over our garden. Our next door neighbours used to have a pond full of fish until a heron started eating em all... after which they gave up & filled the pond in!