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26-09-2006, 06:40 PM
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| | | Nuts? Crackers? Ming Mong?
I recieved a phone call of a flock of Nutcrackers by a local wood today from one of our Field club members. I told the caller they were starlings but he said they called different. I did go & check it out as all birders should but only found Starlings.
I always check out local reports of rare birds however stupid. One day I could be suprised.
Colin.  |
26-09-2006, 06:44 PM
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| | | Re: Nuts? Crackers? Ming Mong?
Hi Colin. Is this a bit of the old 'beak speak' again? 
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26-09-2006, 06:49 PM
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| | | Re: Nuts? Crackers? Ming Mong?
Ming mong. Someone who always sees rare birds. See other post.
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26-09-2006, 07:17 PM
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| | | Re: Nuts? Crackers? Ming Mong?
not somebody sending you on a wild goose chase?! |
26-09-2006, 07:52 PM
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Birds turn up anywhere & I know of someone who boo hooed a bird a so called Robin stroker had seen & it turned out that someone else saw it & it was a first for Britian. That is why I check these things out.
The amount of Sparrowhawks I here of that have been  id 'd as winter Cuckoo's.
Mistle Thrush for White's Thrush & Jays for Hoopoes or Bee Eaters, The list could go on but I still will check them out.
Colin. |
26-09-2006, 08:21 PM
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Can you come and check out my ostrich? 
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26-09-2006, 08:23 PM
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Do Do down here |
26-09-2006, 08:52 PM
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Actually Ostrich & Emu are on my escaped list so they are worth checking out, I would love to see a Yellow bellied Sap sucker. |
15-11-2009, 05:19 PM
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| | | Re: Nuts? Crackers? Ming Mong?
am new to this and only searched this site out because I saw a small flock of Nutcrackers in our woods in Angus this week and amazed by what I saw. Anyone would know the difference between a starling/fieldfare e't'c and the nutcracker- these guys were on our pine trees and a foot tall with beaks like woodpeckers- amazing- never seen anything like it before! |
15-11-2009, 05:26 PM
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Just checking the threads in this- you guys are a bit arrogant are you not! I was keen to look at the internet and see what I could find out about these birds and sightings of them in the UK but I think I'll leave bird watching to you-you definately know best! Enjoy! |
15-11-2009, 05:38 PM
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Hi little wolfie and welcome to WAB. May I ask what has upset you so?
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15-11-2009, 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by little wolfie  ... these guys were ...a foot tall ... amazing- never seen anything like it before! | Amazing indeed. I've seen lots and lots of Nutcrackers on the continent but none a foot tall. Perhaps there's something in the water in Scotland |
16-11-2009, 08:56 AM
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| | | Re: Nuts? Crackers? Ming Mong?
Interesting thread this and yes it is easy to pooh pooh stuff. One of my aunts once claimed a nutcracker on her farm and rang the RSPB about it and another aunt reckons she saw a hoopoe round the corner from me. I politely sounded impressed when they told me, but have to confess to not bothering to check them out. The hoopoe would've been a first for Britain for me as well.
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16-11-2009, 03:58 PM
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| | | Re: Nuts? Crackers? Ming Mong?
I remember reading in an RSPB mag a long while ago at how excited someone was to have seen a Puffin flying over one of the reserves with a carrot in its beak! Turned out to be an Oystercatcher I guess we can all make mistakes - very few of us have known everything there is to know about birds from day 1  |
16-11-2009, 04:09 PM
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sorry to appear thick, but whats a nutcracker  ...mack |
16-11-2009, 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by mrmack sorry to appear thick, but whats a nutcracker ...mack | They are members of the crow family. The european species lives in spruce forests in parts of northern Europe, about Jay sized, mainly dark brown with white spots, pale vent + dark wings.
Occasionally in years of food shortage and"irrupt" + can occur outside their normal range. Pretty rare visitors in the UK, so sightings tend to be treated with some scepticism if reported by inexperienced birders/ general public. Often they turn out to be Starlings in winter plumage! Still probably wise to check the sighting out, just in case.
No birder would have believed the Yellow-nosed Albatross on a boating lake with a Greylag had it not been photographed for posterity; never to be seen by a "real birder". |
16-11-2009, 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted by aeshna5 No birder would have believed the Yellow-nosed Albatross on a boating lake with a Greylag had it not been photographed for posterity; never to be seen by a "real birder". | Oh aye, I'd forgot about this one. Astonishing. Perhaps even better than a tufted puffin.
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