All together now - aaaahhhh! (1 Viewer)

Ruby

Well-known member

• Jun 28, 2005

• #1

Just a bit of light entertainment.... What do you reckon this is then??

All too easy for the experts I reckon....

 

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swamp_rattler

Well-known member

• Jun 28, 2005

• #2

i have no clue really. a eurasian woodcock?

 

SimonC

Still listing - I'll capsize one day

• Jun 28, 2005

• #3

I'm going to stick my neck out and suggest a Tern of some sort? (no books at work so can't check it out!)

 

jurek

Well-known member

• Jun 28, 2005

• #4

Looks like a gull, eg. black-headed, but very dark.

 

Jacana

Will Jones

• Jun 28, 2005

• #5

i would say a gull, but i'll go little gull

 

M Cowming

Well-known member

• Jun 28, 2005

• #6

Black-headed Gull

 

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Tranquility Base

Registered User

• Jun 28, 2005

• #7

Bit dark for a BHG chick........ I'll go Common Tern

 

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Tranquility Base

Registered User

• Jun 28, 2005

• #8

Clouseau said:

Bit dark for a BHG chick........ I'll go Common Tern

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(But then I've been APPALLINGLY wrong three times in a row on here! LOL!)

 

ProthonotaryWarbler

Well-known member

• Jun 28, 2005

• #9

I also believe it is a Gull, but I won't venture as far as to suggest a specific species

 

JANJ

Well-known member

• Jun 28, 2005

• #10

Not a Common Tern, or Artic, I belive they are white below, with a darkish throat and a thinner redish bill. Otherwise I wouldent know.
JanJ

 

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Tranquility Base

Registered User

• Jun 28, 2005

• #11

Wise words, JANJ! Now come off the fence! LOL!

 

alan_rymer

Well-known member

• Jun 28, 2005

• #12

Being on gravel suggest a Tern, or a wader, but I will also take an uneducated guess at little Gull. But that looks like Groundsel which tends to point to a freshwater Gravel pit. Think I'll change to a Plover ( sp ). Hedging bets!.

 

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Jos Stratford

Eastern Exile

Staff member

• Jun 28, 2005

• #13

I'd go also for a (dark) Black-headed Gull

 

JANJ

Well-known member

• Jun 28, 2005

• #14

Clouseau said:

Wise words, JANJ! Now come off the fence! LOL!

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Melanistic Black-headed Gull?
JanJ

 

Ruby

Well-known member

• Jun 29, 2005

• #15

Sorry Guys - Been a bit busy and didn't have time to put you out of your misery (yeah, right!)

It IS a Black Headed Gull - I suspect that any apparently dark colouring stems more from my inability to correctly expose a photograph, rather than any melanistic tendencies of the bird itself...

... BHG eh? Who would have thought that anything so cute could grow up into something so irritating....

 

JANJ

Well-known member

• Jun 29, 2005

• #16

The melanistic thing was a joke, and irritating, well, I don´t know if I agree on that one.
JanJ