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10-09-2010, 05:24 PM
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| | | black heron in essex
was taking a family track our roots day out at wormingford in essex, checking the brights cemetary, that sort of thing. my father took me and my son to wormingford mere, whilst walking along the r stour towards the mill, we came across a black heron sitting on the bottom ledge of the mill pond. its the first any of us had seen, how common are they? |
10-09-2010, 05:25 PM
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| | | Re: black heron in essex
Are you sure it was a heron? |
10-09-2010, 05:27 PM
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| | | Re: black heron in essex
it was the same size, and of similar poise.anything else that you think it might be? |
10-09-2010, 05:43 PM
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| | | Re: black heron in essex
Cormorant??
Or it could just have been a normal Grey Heron in shadow- only you know what the light was like at the time.
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10-09-2010, 05:47 PM
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| | | Re: black heron in essex
it was a warm sunny day standing in full sun 12.30ish, definitely not a cormorant. i would swear it was a heron , it was less than 10 metres away. |
10-09-2010, 05:48 PM
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10-09-2010, 05:51 PM
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| | | Re: black heron in essex
it definitely had long skinny legs like a heron. |
10-09-2010, 05:56 PM
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| | | Re: black heron in essex
Black Heron?
Have a look at the above thread.
Melanistic Grey Herons do occur but very rarely! Cormorants are often mistaken for black Heron.
Can you describe it's behaviour? Black Stork is another possibility. What colour were the legs and bill? |
10-09-2010, 06:08 PM
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| | | Re: black heron in essex
thanks picidae, i now know that we saw a black heron, albeit a grey one really. i'm no expert, but if i couldn't tell a heron when i saw one, i'd have been off to spec-savers. |
10-09-2010, 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by mrbright  thanks picidae, i now know that we saw a black heron, albeit a grey one really. i'm no expert, but if i couldn't tell a heron when i saw one, i'd have been off to spec-savers. | You'd have to get in line behind every other birder - everyone makes mistakes/mis-ID's birds - even common ones sometimes! | | | |
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