Bird of the day!

[aeshna5]

Originally Posted by Barbara

Congratulations mrs fish for attracting goldfinches to your garden, no doubt you will see them very often now that they found you.

I love pied blackbirds Beryl, lovely capture

Well my bird of the day has to be this Wood Pigeon

He posed



Then we had a chat



Then he waved goodbye

One of those everyday birds that so many of us just take for granted- yet when you really look at them they are stunners- great photos. Also they are part of the soundtrack of summer- great sound. Was he a great conversationalist?

[Barbara]

Thanks aeshna, no actually he didn't say anything , I was watching him for a while and now and then he kept opening his beak slightly maybe it was something to do with digesting the seed he had just been eating. This wood pigeon is very friendly and comes close to me, I totter about the garden and he doesn't mind, The last couple of days he has been sat in a conifer cooing, the cooing noise I have heard I always thought came from a Collared Dove. Do they make the same sound as the Wood Pigeon do you know. Considering it's size the Wood Pigeons are quite clumsy don't you think

[mrs fish]

No they don't make the same noise, here is the collared dove

Audio/video - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds


and here is the wood pigeon
Audio/video - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

[Barbara]

Originally Posted by mrs fish

No they don't make the same noise, here is the collared dove

Audio/video - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds


and here is the wood pigeon
Audio/video - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

Thanks for that mrs fish the wood pigeon now I'll be able to tell difference.... hopefully

[John]

Those are cracking images Barbara and I love the thought you have put into it by sequencing them the way you have.

John

[John]

My plan was to stay in the garden today and get a lot of the gardening done but there's a bird that has taken up temporary residence about 25 miles away from Coventry that I have ignored for a while. The bird in question was a Common Crane and it has set up residence in a field with a few Mute Swans.

I thought a few hours away from gardening would be ok so I set off about 11am on my way to a small village called Croperdy in Oxfordshire. As soon as i approached the field the bird could be seen as it was on its own, well back from the Swans. It was too far for my DSLR as it was two fields away from me and about 300 yards. I managed a few shots plus a couple of videos of the bird then I noticed a tree at the far edge of the first field that might give me cover.

I gingerley walked towards the Crane, keeping the tree between me and it and eventually got to within about 75 yards of the bird. I managed a few DSLR shots but because of the distance I have had to crop them quite heavily.









John

[Barbara]

Originally Posted by John

Those are cracking images Barbara and I love the thought you have put into it by sequencing them the way you have.

John

Thanks John, normally I wouldn't have bothered too much about taking his pic but there was nothing much going on in the garden this afternoon, so I concentrated on him when he went onto the bird table, just after he stretched his wings he flew off

Love your crane images, well worth giving up the gardening to go after this beauty. Your garden will always be there but he might not. Lucky you, I have never seen one before.

[badgerwatcher]

Great crane shots, John. Was he actually in the fields in Cropredy? Near the canal?

[John]

Originally Posted by badgerwatcher

Great crane shots, John. Was he actually in the fields in Cropredy? Near the canal?

The Crane is where the arrow is. Streetmap.co.uk- search results

John

[Billy Wobble Dagger]

Morning all
I know that I haven’t posted for a while but I’m still away in the Gulf but I try and check WAB every couple of days to see what you are all up to. I have no pictures, but I would like to nominate the Purple Sunbird as bird of yesterday. I spotted a pair Sunday evening in a green space collecting nectar from some flowers. The male sparking purple and black in the setting sun while the female very drab in comparison, in shades of brown. The wings a blur as they sucked the nectar from the flowers. Made my day, week and month.

BWD