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You guys have way better eyes than I. I can go for a Fox but that's all.
They are all guesses KC (apart from maybe the fox and Lapwing flying across the river) šŸ™‚

(Well not the fox ā€˜flying across the riverā€˜ obviously just the slapwing)

Even the Great Auk is a guess, itā€™s completely the wrong habitat for that species.
 
Yes, it was a greylag egg (and probably not a very fresh one) ! Congregulations!

The whole situation was as follows: At 1st of June 2020 5 Egyptian geese, 2 pairs and a single adult male, egyptian geese were grazing peacefully while 4 Lapwing chicks were running around pecking at insects and worms under the watchful eyes of their parents. a bit furtehr away several greykalg families with young were grazing close to the waters edge, while furtehr lapwing chicks and chicks of Little ringed plover were running around with the adults watching over them.
Suddenly a red fox dashed out of the rushes and raced over the open plain to an area with reeds where a greylag nest had been earlier in the season. He disappeared in the reeds and came out again close to the place of the greylag nest with a dirty Greylag egg. Meanwhile, even though this took only a few seconds, nearly all the lapwings from the vicinity were coming down on the fox, and the 5 egyptian geese had built a front marching towards the fox and calling loudly. The fox ran into the rushes again with the egg in its mouth and disappeared.

That all happened in a very shotr time period. I was so surprised that I only got one blurry photo...
 
you mean the air, deb? :ROFLMAO:
Yes, Lou indeed ā€™the airā€™ if you like to regard ā€˜airā€˜ as a habitat šŸ˜‚ - Clearly though, it obvious to those of us up to speed with these things, you are not well informed of the latest taxonomy - may I suggest you do some background reading!

The small ones that survived are so small they are able to fly, and now conceal themselves among Razorbill flocks, among which they are completely indistinguishable.

I also refer you to Joernā€™s post #21

ā€œDonĀ“t you see it's a Great Auk hunting flying fish?ā€

So we already have precedent for airbourne Great Auks šŸ‘
 
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Yes, Lou indeed ā€™the airā€™ if you like to regard ā€˜airā€˜ as a habitat šŸ˜‚ - Clearly though, it obvious to those of us up to speed with these things, you are not well informed of the latest taxonomy - may I suggest you do some background reading!



I also refer you to Joernā€™s post #21

ā€œDonĀ“t you see it's a Great Auk hunting flying fish?ā€

So we already have precedent for airbourne Great Auks šŸ‘
Otherwise known as the 'air'bourne conspiracy

(Air is of course a habitat, from lower to upper atmosphere and used by all manner of organisms ..)
 
A Woodpecker walked into a bar ...

BRRRRRRRRRR BBBBRRRRRRRRRR

A - Knock Knock

B - Who's there?

A - >>> deathly silence<<<<<

A Woodpecker walked into a bar ...

'Sorry' said the barman. 'We don't serve cider in here.'

A Woodpecker walked into a bar ...

It was going to fly, but it was a bit stiff. Very stiff in fact. Turns out it was extinct. And it was behind the bar on a trophy plate. It didn't even walk into the bar.

A Redneck had an unfortunate incident in the swamps whilst simultaneously answering the call of nature and whittling a new belt buckle. Stemming the blood flow and furiously chewing on his wad ... of chewing baccy to stem the pain he made it to the local doctor's surgery. 'Bad news I'm afraid' he was told 'We can't save it. You'll have to get a replacement made up.' Fortunately his sister's cousin's aunt's brother was a dab hand at carving and whittling (even better, or at least more careful) and had carved him a reasonably impressive 'replacement part' in no time at all. It was great and functioning an' all but it did require a certain amount of time and diligence to achieve any kind of result of any kind. 'Thanks Dad' he said. 'Do I's owe you summat?'

'Nah son' he said. But I need some money for the frog betting tonight so if you pay me now, I'll pay you back, but because I don't really trust you or your sister you must tell everyone that you've paid twice for it to save any confusion.

Now when questioned by all the nice young swamp ladies/visiting ornithologists who come across him standing awkwardly against a tree in the woods whilst attending his business and who ask him what's up, he pauses awhile, stares into the distance for a moment (well about 100 metres) and then turns and answers knowingly ... 'I've a re-billed wood pecker'


(Apologies! I don't know a proper southern redneck drawl from a devonshire accent either ;-) )
 
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