25-07-2007, 10:57 AM
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| Re: what is this ?
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Originally Posted by paulo  I live in Bristol, and saw flying over our local river a bird that I have never seen before ... does anyone know what it might have been ? It was, swallow shaped (pointed wings) but appeared to have almost no tail. It was about twice the size of a swallow though. I thought it was light grey (Steph my girlfriend says more beige). Two distinctive points were that it appeared to have a continuous white margin to the trailing edge of its wings, and across its tail, and that it beat its wings through 180 degrees (ie it held them vertical at the end of its strokes) and was quite an acrobatic flier, flying low over the water, though I think that it took off from the land. I think that it had a short and sharp call. I've given up looking in my books - does anyone have an idea what it was ? |
Sounds like Common Sandpiper.
Cheers,
Adam |