Tame turnstone (1 Viewer)

ANdy5551

Urbicafan

• Feb 15, 2009

• #1

Went for a day trip to Bridlington with the family and whilst on South shore promenade near the harbour a little turnstone came flying in from inshore towards the sea, landed on the prom wall and then proceeded to run around near the roadside scavenging for some kind of food scraps, not 5 feet from lots of other day trippers. Most welcome and unexpected. No camera though

 

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Henry B

Well-known member

• Feb 15, 2009

• #2

Typical behaviour .

 

colonelboris

Right way up again

• Feb 17, 2009

• #3

They can be incredibly tame at times. I saw a few running under a deckchair that was being sat in at the time. Rather useful for photography: http://www.tonykeenebirds.co.uk/bbirds/turnstone.html

Sometimes they've been known to like people a bit too much and can make a mess of bodies washed up on shores. Apparently caused a few identification problems with bodies washed up after the Dieppe raid in 1942...

 

Last edited: Feb 17, 2009

deborah4

Well-known member

• Feb 17, 2009

• #4

colonelboris said:

They can be incredibly tame at times.

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and lazy - remember this!?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article6855.ece

 

DaveN

Derwent Valley Birder

• Feb 17, 2009

• #5

deborah4 said:

and lazy - remember this!?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article6855.ece

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:-O Yeah I'd forgotten about that.