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Here's one from a few days ago. Taken before sun up at Target.

Yeah I see those guys around all the time :)

I'll getcha one.

Rick

ESCAPED pet duck :)
He's been on the river in Burford for the last 3 years, we always make sure he gets fed in winter when we go out there.
There are some very funny looking duck crossbreeds on that stretch :o

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Originally Posted by paulnj

COMMON GRACKLE making a sandwich ;)

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But it's EUROPEAN {evil grin}

Over here, it's a Jackdaw.

More from the UK

Apologies for the first two, taken on floppy disk with a Sony Mavica.
#3 is a mystery.
And for #4, I'd like an ID for all 6 species.

Just one, two shots though.
Extra points awarded for an ID of lunch as well as the bird :D

I think you said you've not seen a coot in flight?
The gulls were after the bread, and he was NOT sharing !!

It's taken nearly a year to be able to look at these.
Not strictly on topicI don't think there are any more to ID.

#1 my Dad on what proved to be his last walk to the local park
#2 his posse, on the day of his funeral (and wedding anniversary)

They recognised him by his coat, and would swim across the lake to meet him.
We had to bribe them with food :)

Thank you for sharing these photos Paul. I can relate. I know just how you feel.

I've never seen ducks like the black ones with the white bills! Or are they even ducks? I don't see webs on their feets :)

They're Coots, the white on the head is a giveaway - do you have the saying "bald as a coot" ?
If you look closely, you can see they have white feet, the toes have flat broad edges (rather like the front end of an SR-71 in shape) and they are quite effective for swimming - also good for running ON the water in a fight.

And there are mallards (duck and drake) and swans - the muggers of the park, and right at the back, too small to ID them, we have some gulls out of breeding plumage.

Thanks Paul. I've never seen a Coot, nor heard the saying. All the others, we have plenty of here in New England. :)

YIKES.... I should have known you were in the UK from your profile ;)

Jackdaw is more of a crow type bird I think. I should have known the ID too

house sparrow...... FEMALE

Paul... Thanks for sharing these very special images with us.

I will get back to you tomorrow on the rest of your birds. I just got home from work and in FOUR hours need to get up to meet my BIRDING buddy ;) hopefully I come home with atleast one good image.

NIGHTY NIGHT ;)

Reaching into the archives, here. Never identified it and now here's my chance....

If you can't ID this, you have to turn in your Bird Nerd ID card...

The first is an eastern subspecies of the willet

The last is way easy.... roseate spoonbill.

Did I ever tell you about the time I was in little estero lagoon (Ft Myers Beach FL) LITERALLY with my camera 6 inches about the water while spoonbills were feeding within 2 feet of me?

I filled the roll and went to change film and a very close spoonbill caught some flare from my lens as I was moving the camera! My lens hood was ripped off my lens and my full roll took a dive :(

I HAD some great images of spoonbills.... I think?

cool! I know they can fly, but I have actually never seen one fly!

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More from the UK

Apologies for the first two, taken on floppy disk with a Sony Mavica.
#3 is a mystery.
And for #4, I'd like an ID for all 6 species.

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1- BULLFINCH
2- GREAT CRESTED GREBE
3- domesticated muscovy duck
4-MUTE SWAN , CANADA GOOSE, COOT, MALLARD, GREYLAG GOOSE

The SIXTH bird is mostlikely a tufted duck, but looks like a ring necked duck by the bill color

Eurasian subspecies of the barn swallow with flying insects

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The SIXTH bird is mostlikely a tufted duck, but looks like a ring necked duck by the bill color

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You could ID the tufteds better from these, though perhaps not 1 & 2 :)

We find the females far more adventurous than the males. They're only visitors here, not breeding on the lake, and it takes about 5 weeks to encourage them in to feed with the mallards and coots.

They are a RARE bird in the US, but I find one nearly every winter :) very hard duck to pick out when it is with 500- 2000 scaup and ring-necked ducks in a very wide inlet :)

This bird landed on my roof and scooted over to the neighbor's yard today. First, the hard one...

Man Paul, this thread is getting confusing. Well anyway here is a new one for me. I don't think I have even seen this bird before. I know its a heron, but what kind?

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Man Paul, this thread is getting confusing. Well anyway here is a new one for me. I don't think I have even seen this bird before. I know its a heron, but what kind?

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I just ID'd it a few seconds ago, so I now know what it is. Do you paul?

Damn it's so exciting to see a new species that you had no idea even exsisted before you saw it!