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25-03-2008, 09:30 AM
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| | | Unidentified bird Norfolk
Location garden on edge of water meadow
Size 4-5"
Colour buff & very sleek
Pink bill - not unlike a Robin's bill in shape
Narrow yellow/orange streak down edge of wing through to tail feather
Feeding on niger seed |
25-03-2008, 04:06 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified bird Norfolk
It sounds bizarre! Yet in your description are odd snippets that point towards a Goldfinch (though there are also odd snippets that don't!).
Regards, Chris |
25-03-2008, 04:32 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified bird Norfolk
Any black/red? |
25-03-2008, 04:40 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified bird Norfolk
Quote: |
Narrow yellow/orange streak down edge of wing through to tail feather & Pink bill
| greenfinch 
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25-03-2008, 05:14 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified bird Norfolk
Hi.
Could it have been a Whitethroat.
Regards John B |
25-03-2008, 05:37 PM
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| |  Re: Unidentified bird Norfolk
Thank you for your replies, we have Goldfinch and Greenfinch in the garden all the time, and this was not like either of these - by comparison the finches are much more highly coloured, this bird was pale, it's body was buff all over, with a pink bill.
Also no red or black.
We do not have Whitethroat in garden, but it doesn't look like the picture in our books...
Any other suggestions, or anybody think they have seen a smilar bird? Could it have escaped from an avary perhaps.
Thanks |
26-03-2008, 08:02 AM
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| | | Re: Unidentified bird Norfolk
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Originally Posted by Pussy Willow  Any other suggestions, or anybody think they have seen a smilar bird? Could it have escaped from an avary perhaps.
Thanks | With your description, that seems probable I think.
Regards, Chris |
26-03-2008, 08:30 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Suffolk
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| | | Re: Unidentified bird Norfolk
A Spotted Fly Catcher ?
Here is a photo of one from the gallery taken by Glsammy http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/pi...hp?photo=43924
There are a few more pics in there  |
26-03-2008, 08:50 AM
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| | | Re: Unidentified bird Norfolk
From the description I wonder if it's a meadow pipit, but I'm not sure if these would eat niger seed. Female siskin might also be a possibility? |
26-03-2008, 10:16 AM
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| | | Re: Unidentified bird Norfolk
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Originally Posted by mrs fish | It's too early in the season for Spottted flycatcher, Mrs F, and neither they nor Meadow pipits will use hanging feeders.
Pekin Robin perhaps? Pekin Robin Leiothrix Lutea
A not infrequent escape.
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