Apparent weird Hirundine NE England (1 Viewer)

[Bismarck Honeyeater]

Check this out, (assuming it is a Hirundine) it doesn't look European to me!
https://twitter.com/stewpottery/status/460870599397486592

I know nothing other than what I picked up from Twitter, there are a couple of photos on his feed (I hope he doesn't mind me flagging this up)

 

[Alkalin]

Looks like a Ring-Necked Parakeet (Psittacula krameri). We now have well established feral populations around some europeans cities (Brussels, Paris, Montpellier, London), where they are now quite common.
Did you notice that the bird were green? Or any loud and high-pitched call?
Here's a link to somme picture, with one of the birds in flight:
http://www.living-nature.eu/?page_id=1874

 

[MrBiffa]

Agreed

 

[DarkFireFalcon]

The long tail ones look like Barn Swallows. They look to have too short a neck for parakeets.. Presumably it was the short-tailed bird the OP was asking about.

 

[Alkalin]

Those are probably three different birds, in fact.
My guess was for the one on the right, which really look like a Parakeet to me.
And I agree the one in the middle is a Barn Swallow.
But no idea for the last one on the left...

 

[DarkFireFalcon]

We obviously don't know it they were flying together, but the size seems to be the same, and the neck on the right bird is even shorter...
Here's presumably the same three birds in a slightly different shot:
https://twitter.com/stewpottery/status/460870268689215488/photo/1

I think they are all Barn Swallows, one missing most of it's tail.

 

[Jane Turner]

I think the wing bases are too wide for a Swallow. It looks a bit larky to me - but even then its too short tailed. A growing Swallow tail should show a fork and there is a lot of under tail covert/rump beyond the wing on a swallow too - just compare to the one in the photo.


It could be a Staling perhaps hard to judge size/relative height, with the bill burnt out in the photo

Though it reads as though the observer was sure it was a hirundine in the field, rather than an odd interloper found in the photo afterwards

 

[chris butterworth]

It's definitely not a hirundine, the head and overall proportions look 'wrong' somehow ( unless it's an African River or White-eyed River Martin ) and the 'hand' doesn't seem right for Starling.

 

[BirdPics]

https://twitter.com/leicester_llama/status/460885384604315648/photo/1

 

[Mud Hen]

https://twitter.com/leicester_llama/status/460885384604315648/photo/1

Anyone still think it's a parakeet/lark/starling/definitely not a hirundine?

 

[Pie Face]

Has anyone ruled out Bat or maybe flying fish?