strange visitors (1 Viewer)

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rootsman

Active member

• Jul 5, 2007

• #1

what would you say was your strangest garden visitor?


mine would have to be the red legged partridge currently

 

Nicola Main

Well-known member

• Jul 5, 2007

• #2

Probably a male Redstart which sat on the wire just outside our living room window for a few minutes a couple of years ago. He sat there constantly wagging his tail up and down like a wagtail for a couple of minutes before flying away. What a stunning bird he was too.

 

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gordon g

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• Jul 5, 2007

• #3

A moorhen. It lurked around under the shrubs in a damp corner for a couple of days. Two years ago we had a superb dark variant of a male pheasant in the garden - overall much darker than usual and a blue-black irridescent colour in its darkest areas, but the same patterns as a regular male.

 

YellowBudgie

Well-known member

• Jul 10, 2007

• #4

The first year we put the feeder up I would see a Common Grackle with a white breast. I had no idea what the bird was at the time but now know it was a Common Grackle with Leucism. Three years have passed and I see another Common Grackle with one single white tail feather when he stretches his feathers out.

Info and photos on Leucism from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucistic

See ya,

 

Pete Mella

Getting there...

• Jul 25, 2007

• #5

We have a blue tit with no feathers on its head, which looks like a tiny vulture. Rather cruelly we call him Martin the Mutant.