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nickyboy

Norven Mankey
[QUOTE 4956977, member: 9609"]I apologise for this being a bit of a double post as I also posted this in 'Mundane News', I think I just got over excited the smorning and posted in the wrong place - I'm still beyond myself with excitement to have had a Kingfisher in my own garden.. Anyway, it really belongs in the wildlife thread so here it is again.

A female Kingfisher spent about 10 minutes this morning sitting on top of our bird table that is next to the garden pond, I guess she was checking it out as a source of food. sadly I don't think there is anything in the pond for her to eat, so I doubt we will see her again.

We are a reasonable distance from any river or stream where they normally spend all their time so I am still not sure why it would be even passing over our garden - may be it is one of this years young that is looking for new territory? EDIT; I don't think it was a young one, apparently they have black legs and even the female young have all black beaks until the following spring - so this was more than likely an adult female that was away from the river.

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Apparently it is female due to the orange on the bottom of its beak, males beaks are fully black - I just learnt this today (it said a good way to remember it is females wear lipstick!)[/QUOTE]


Can't be many with Kingfisher on their "garden list", quite a WTF moment. Nice one
 

PeteXXX

Cake or ice cream? The choice is endless ...
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Not necessarily 'wildlife' but I saw this emu in a large field about half a mile from my house.
There's four of them sharing the field with several donkeys.
 

rich p

ridiculous old lush
[QUOTE 4956977, member: 9609"]I apologise for this being a bit of a double post as I also posted this in 'Mundane News', I think I just got over excited the smorning and posted in the wrong place - I'm still beyond myself with excitement to have had a Kingfisher in my own garden.. Anyway, it really belongs in the wildlife thread so here it is again.

A female Kingfisher spent about 10 minutes this morning sitting on top of our bird table that is next to the garden pond, I guess she was checking it out as a source of food. sadly I don't think there is anything in the pond for her to eat, so I doubt we will see her again.

We are a reasonable distance from any river or stream where they normally spend all their time so I am still not sure why it would be even passing over our garden - may be it is one of this years young that is looking for new territory? EDIT; I don't think it was a young one, apparently they have black legs and even the female young have all black beaks until the following spring - so this was more than likely an adult female that was away from the river.

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Apparently it is female due to the orange on the bottom of its beak, males beaks are fully black - I just learnt this today (it said a good way to remember it is females wear lipstick!)[/QUOTE]
You lucky bugger!
 

potsy

Rambler
Another first for me since getting into bird watching.

Hurried shot (it disappeared just a few seconds later)

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MikeG

Guru
Loads of jays around here. They do spend quite a bit of time squabbling, loudly, so you hear them all the time, but because they stick to woodland canopy, they're much harder to see. Like all corvids, they are extremely intelligent for birds.
 
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