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30-06-2006, 06:25 PM
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| | | Bird identification needed :)
Hi everyone,
I need some help trying to identify a bird I saw in my back garden - unfortunately it flew away before I had a chance to get the camera and take a pic of it.
I was slightly smaller than a pigeon and had vivid yellowy-green feathers on it's wings and back (couldn't see the front as it was facing away from me), it also had a red splodge on the top of it's head.
Any ideas? I'd love to know what it was because I've not seen one like it before in the garden 
Thanks!
Sarah |
30-06-2006, 06:29 PM
|  | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Nottingham
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Sounds very much liike A Green Woodpecker to me. Oh, and Welcome to WAB!  |
30-06-2006, 06:55 PM
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Must be Greenwoodpecker -lucky you if it was in your garden! |
30-06-2006, 07:01 PM
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I agree a green woodie - someimes also known as a yaffle (like proffesor yaffle on bagpus  )
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30-06-2006, 07:32 PM
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Oh wow! a woodpecker - i've never seen one before - even more cross I didn't get a pic now!
Thanks for your help everyone!
Sarah |
30-06-2006, 07:50 PM
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Yes it sounds like a Yaffle to me too |
30-06-2006, 07:57 PM
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Sarah - did it look like this ? http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/ga...mage-9166.html
if it did its a yaffle.
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30-06-2006, 09:10 PM
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Yep, that's exactly it!
Beautiful bird!
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