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Very unusual!
Wow! Spectacular bird, always wanted to see one of those.
I remember first seeing one of those in Tunisia, brilliantly bonkers little thing!
Saw them often growing up as a kid in South Africa.
We called it a Hoep-hoep, similar sounding to "whoop whoop".
Saw something very similar in North Wales other week. What other birds have a similar colour way? Red top, black and white bottom?
Saw something very similar in North Wales other week. What other birds have a similar colour way? Red top, black and white bottom?
spotted woodpecker
I wonder how man "twitchers" are now peering though binoculars at the garden and [b]house[/b] where this has taken up residence
My Gran got one of those in her garden a few years back (near Durham), we had to restrain her from trying to make a cup of tea and a bacon butty for every twitcher that turned up once the word got out.
Definitely wasn't a woodpecker. Looked more like a pigeon/magpie shape.
Chris sounds like a Jay
I'd agree with a Jay
I'd agree with a Jay
I'd disagree with
😕colour way
Just looked out the window and i cant see it.
What other birds have a similar colour way? Red top, black and white bottom?
A kinky upside-down Newcastle fan?
hoopoe. the clue is in the link 😉
Pyro why upside down - it could be a Ginger Toon fan in shorts
hoopoe..
A Jay, yesterday...
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Yep. Think that was probably it!
Not as exciting as a hoopoeopeoe.