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  1. ukswanman

    Hello from Northumberland (UK)

    Welcome Kate. If you find any live birds that need help, please get in touch. The Berwick Swan and Wildlife Trust has had a steady stream of oiled Guillemots from the north Northumberland coast. Barrie.
  2. ukswanman

    Blue Frog ID please

    It never changed colour for about 5 minutes, when it hopped out of sight in the hedge. I saw a brown one change to green (my wife swears it was turning blue) while I observed it after moving it from a wooden veranda to greenery in the hedge, but the blue one showed no sign of turning green while...
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    Comment by 'ukswanman' in media 'Blue Frog'

    Since It was identified for me, I've been looking at amphibian websites and although I haven't seen any other blue ones, there is quite a variation from the normal bright green. One site stated that the colour change is not so much a means of camouflage as a reaction to temperature and humidity...
  4. Blue Frog

    Blue Frog

    European Tree Frog in unusual colour, I thought. Thanks to Joern Lehmhus for identifying it for me.
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    • Category: Amphibians
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    Blue Frog ID please

    Can anyone tell me anything about this frog I saw in my hedge on the south coast of France, near Perpignan? The hedge is a mixture of mainly privet and grape vine gone daft. There were no blue flowers anywhere near. The frog was one and a quarter inches from nose to tail and the colour is an...
  6. Hungry Mute Swan

    Hungry Mute Swan

    Getting inside a Mute Swan's head
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    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Britain & Europe
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    Scottish Borders/ Northumberland

    I've just found this site while trying to find answers to a query we received at www.swan-trust.org.uk Be warned that I may keep popping up with questions I haven't been able to answer. Links to this site wiil, of course, be given to enable people to ask their own questions. My interest in birds...
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