Ongoing joke

[walshie 2,804]

Last time it was tracked it had swam 250 miles in 6 days, so could well be the same one. The one here was sitting on the back of boats in the harbour and nearly sinking them.

[Greyman 28,772]

Lamaguire vulture near the Severn bridge, 9ft wingspan, one of my best non native species spotted, I was watching it for a couple of days before the twitchers got on it, last seen on Dartmoor with 1000s of them in hot pursuit

[forest of dean redneck 11,679]

56 minutes ago, Greyman said:

Lamaguire vulture near the Severn bridge, 9ft wingspan, one of my best non native species spotted, I was watching it for a couple of days before the twitchers got on it, last seen on Dartmoor with 1000s of them in hot pursuit

I remember that one

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

We had a hoopoe here for a few days last spring until the twitchers drove it away .I saw it whilst stalking roe ,landed just above my head in a thorn bush .

[Greyman 28,772]

10 minutes ago, forest of dean redneck said:

I remember that one

I saw it twice but never new what it was, only it was fecking massive and didn’t really belong here, a week after my misses got the local paper out and said there is that bird we saw that I realised how rare it was  

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

There was a black vulture here Greyman .I snapped it banking away over a hedge after putting it up off a road kill deer that had made it through the hedge .Drivers on the road all slowed down but only time I saw it .Theres a list of rare spots somewhere on the net and that hoopoe was on it but not the vulture .Think I deleted the pic as not important .

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Anybody ever seen a shrike in the uk .One bird I’ve never seen .

[Greyman 28,772]

4 minutes ago, foxdropper said:

Anybody ever seen a shrike in the uk .One bird I’ve never seen .

I’m quite fortunate I live along a migration route so get to see quite a lot of unusual stuff though often I don’t have a clue what it is unless someone tells me or I find it on the net, they mist net and ring birds in the woods just up the road from me came across an old boy with a couple of pied fly catchers a few years back never seen one before or since,

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

We have pied flycatchers in the wood I shoot  squirrels mate .I use it as a means to shoot corvids as they are red listed .We also have marsh tits nesting which are also red list .
Sat in that squirrel hide I’m always in awe of the number of small birds that visit as well and makes the day all the more special for me .

Those that carry out fieldsports of one sort or another who don’t know the birds species really annoy me .I’ve a mate who’s a good stalker but wouldn’t know a tit from a thrush .

[forest of dean redneck 11,679]

53 minutes ago, foxdropper said:

We had a hoopoe here for a few days last spring until the twitchers drove it away .I saw it whilst stalking roe ,landed just above my head in a thorn bush .

Would love to see one of those I know they pop up on Portland occasionally .

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

14 minutes ago, forest of dean redneck said:

Would love to see one of those I know they pop up on Portland occasionally .

Can’t miss them when they do appear mate .No other bird like it .Seen them in France in small groups but seems to be singles here .

[forest of dean redneck 11,679]

54 minutes ago, Greyman said:

I saw it twice but never new what it was, only it was fecking massive and didn’t really belong here, a week after my misses got the local paper out and said there is that bird we saw that I realised how rare it was  

Yeah it was in the review newspaper at the time

[forest of dean redneck 11,679]

Just now, foxdropper said:

Can’t miss them when they do appear mate .No theory bird like it .Seen them in France in small groups but seems to be singles here .

No not many brightly coloured birds here , 

I was up near Portland bill once and seen a brown small bird on top of some blackberry thorns never did find out what it was couldn’t id it as a uk species couldn’t get near it to get decent pic on phone
 

Golden eagles on my list and wouldn’t mind seeing a turtle dove. 
not seen a corncrake but heard one in Dorset seen cuckoos in Dorset,   dartford warblers and stonechats on heaths .

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Twitching was my passion growing up .The only restraint was travel .

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Saw two goldies  in the highland get up off deer gralloch .Saw another in the borders years ago .