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23-06-2006, 02:28 PM
| | Active Member | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: East Sussex, UK
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| | | Bird ID (Photograph Included)
Hi,
My name's Steve and I've just joined up. I found this site while searching for a bird ID for a photograph I took last week. I've signed up because my interest in wildlife has been sparked by my photography hobby.
I'm not great on bird ID's but am starting to add a few names to my list that I know. This guy though was new to me... 
It was taken at a local park beside the pond. Can anyone please identify it?
Cheers,
Steve |
23-06-2006, 02:34 PM
|  | Active Member | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Leeds
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hi.
looks like a juvenile moorhen to me. |
23-06-2006, 02:35 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Cambridgeshire
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Juvenile Moorhen comes to mind, but not sure.
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A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.
W.H.Davies |
23-06-2006, 02:39 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Wolverhampton, West Midlands
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Hi Steve and welcome to WAB!
Yep, I agree with scholesy, definitely a young Moorhen, you can just see the emerging "white stripe" down his flanks, and the greenish-yellow legs, plus that yellow spot on the beak - all indicative of the species .... 
Nice shot, by the way!
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Jez |
23-06-2006, 02:46 PM
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Wow that was fast! Thanks for the ID help guys. Now that you've said it I can see the resemblance. I'd have liked to get more shots of this fella but another bird came along and scared it away!
Cheers,
Steve |
23-06-2006, 05:07 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Coventry
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Originally Posted by nevets2001uk Wow that was fast! Thanks for the ID help guys. Now that you've said it I can see the resemblance. I'd have liked to get more shots of this fella but another bird came along and scared it away!
Cheers,
Steve | Spot on with the Moorhen. Cracking photo Steve. If you revisit there you will almost certainly get another chance to photograph the bird again. I would try for the parents also. With the quality of this photo it is obvious that you know how to use your camera and on a sunny day the parent Moorhen is an exceptionally nice bird to take a photograph of.
John |
23-06-2006, 10:52 PM
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Thanks very much John. I appreciate the compliment. I returned again this afternoon and the parents were being quite shy again. I got a few shots but none I'm particularily happy with. I'll be heading back to try again.
Cheers,
Steve |
23-06-2006, 11:06 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Stoke on Trent
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Moorhens are usually more shy than coots, but on the canal today, adult and juvenile both came close for some food. | | |
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