Forum search & shortcuts

What Bird is This?
 

What Bird is This?

Posts: 1365
Full Member
Topic starter
 
[#13326432]

Bird

Looks and moves like a woodpecker, but completely the wrong colour?


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 11:21 am
Posts: 6356
Full Member
 

Image won't show for me.

I'm guessing that it's a baby pterodactyl. Very rare, good spot.


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 11:23 am
Posts: 11388
Free Member
 

Baby Robin


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 11:26 am
Posts: 15692
Free Member
 

moves like a woodpecker

You mean moves vertically on trees?


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 11:31 am
Posts: 368
Full Member
 

Can't see an image

Small Size - possibly a Tree Creeper


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 11:32 am
Posts: 14190
Full Member
 

Sure it wasn't blue?

[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 11:38 am
Posts: 1365
Full Member
Topic starter
 

I see there's issues with images? Any tips?

Much bigger than a treecreeper. Looks and sized like a Spotted Woodpecker but all dark grey-brown.


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 11:38 am
Posts: 4626
Full Member
 

Juvenille Green Woodpecker? Did it have a red cap still? Like a brown version of a green woodpecker only usually seen on the ground not on a tree


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 11:42 am
Posts: 1365
Full Member
Topic starter
 

no red cap, completely one colour.


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 12:04 pm
Posts: 3552
Full Member
 

Fieldfare?  (I can't see the image so guessing from the description)


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 12:27 pm
Posts: 1536
Full Member
 

Can't see the image but have you tried using Google Lense? It's pretty good with that sort of thing


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 12:37 pm
Posts: 1834
Full Member
 

Pictures not showing.

did it climb up the tree? Tiny bird, almost like a mouse - Treecreeper.

Climb up and down the tree - nuthatch.

pigeon sized and greenish - green woodpecker. Usually found on the ground.


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 12:38 pm
Posts: 3004
Full Member
 

Juvenile jay.  I'm absolutely sure.  Even tho I can't see it, I'm going to argue until I'm blue in the face ?


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 12:42 pm
Posts: 1365
Full Member
Topic starter
 

Our Fieldfares have gone back to Sweden for the summer and have much more colour on them.

Way bigger than a treecreeper, bigger than the nuthatch that we see every day here.

If only I could get the pic to show?


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 12:43 pm
Posts: 1310
Free Member
 

upload to imgur and paste a link?


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 12:45 pm
Posts: 15692
Free Member
 

Juvenile jay. I’m absolutely sure.

Why juvenile? Juvenile jays don't have different plumage to adult jays.

Well not after they have fledged anyway


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 12:47 pm
Posts: 1365
Full Member
Topic starter
 

Google Lens doesn't know, other than suggesting Juvenile Starling - but they don't have anything like the beak that this bad boy has. There are juvenile starlings living in next door's roof and I've photographed them regularly so I'm pretty sure its not them.


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 12:52 pm
Posts: 3004
Full Member
 

Juvenile jays don’t have different plumage to adult jays

Did I say they did?  (I did try to put a winking emoji)

Starling is a good shout...they do have surprisingly long beaks, and the juniors are brown and boring.


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 12:56 pm
Posts: 15692
Free Member
 

Did I say they did?

No you didn't which is why I asked "why juvenile?"


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 1:00 pm
Posts: 3004
Full Member
 

Deleted..unnecessarily rude.


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 1:41 pm
Posts: 15692
Free Member
 

.


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 1:53 pm
Posts: 12438
Full Member
 

I see there’s issues with images? Any tips?

Just post the url, image posting on the forum seems to be broken.


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 2:13 pm
Posts: 1910
Free Member
 

Do we have a pic yet? I usually use postimage.org then copy the hotlink. Haven’t checked if it’s not working today due to the end of the world though..


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 2:13 pm
Posts: 35355
Full Member
 

Nothing to add, just bravo to all trying to identify an unknown bird from a non existent image. Starling work.


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 2:16 pm
Posts: 15692
Free Member
 

Starling work.

Ah great the bird puns have started!


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 2:36 pm
Posts: 15692
Free Member
 

Deleted..unnecessarily rude.

Was it fowl?


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 2:37 pm
Posts: 1834
Full Member
 

Don’t be a tit Ernie.


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 3:37 pm
Posts: 8438
Free Member
 

Don’t be a tit Ernie.

Such a silly goose, he's eider grousing or ducking the question. Hawking his dodgy opinions at anyone who will swallow them. Swiftly!


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 3:44 pm
Posts: 3004
Full Member
 

I'm starling to think there was no bird


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 3:56 pm
Posts: 8964
Free Member
 

As it seems to have stolen the photograph I can only presume it was a Harr Finch


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 3:56 pm
Posts: 3004
Full Member
 

There's a linnet to my patience to wait for the photo


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 4:02 pm
Posts: 8964
Free Member
 

Impatient bustard?


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 4:04 pm
Posts: 12438
Full Member
 

Deleted..unnecessarily rude.

Sound like a chicken out.


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 4:06 pm
Posts: 1310
Free Member
 

heres a baby buzzard while we wait


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 4:08 pm
Posts: 3552
Full Member
 

The OP will be Choughed if he works out how to upload a picture.


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 4:10 pm
Posts: 3004
Full Member
 

I'm sure he'll be pheasantly surprised


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 4:27 pm
Posts: 1910
Free Member
 

Could everyone please quit the fowl language?


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 4:58 pm
Posts: 15692
Free Member
 

Sound like a chicken out.

Maybe he took a funny tern?


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 5:07 pm
Posts: 6325
Full Member
 

Unable to upload a picture, I'm thinking OP has bittern off more than he can chew starting this thread


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 5:32 pm
Posts: 863
Full Member
 

Wryneck?


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 5:37 pm
Posts: 9010
Free Member
 

Lesser spotted Zero TR?


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 5:38 pm
Posts: 9677
Full Member
 

someones a Robin toad, stealing the image.


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 5:40 pm
Posts: 46330
Full Member
 

Until I've a gander at the photo this thread will be puffin out hot air.

Anyhow, here's a photo of mine from earlier in the week.

[url= https://i.ibb.co/Bw430hM/IMG-20240715-WA0032.jp g" target="_blank">https://i.ibb.co/Bw430hM/IMG-20240715-WA0032.jp g"/> [/img][/url]


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 5:50 pm
Posts: 5815
Full Member
 


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 6:10 pm
Posts: 3004
Full Member
 

Our attempts to identify it will be skua-ed if the OP doesn't succeed.

I'm stopping now.


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 6:42 pm
Page 1 / 2