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09-04-2011, 08:41 PM
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| | | red legs....
On my way to golf yesterday, passing fields looking around as i do now , looking out for the birds ..( i wasnt driving) when all of a sudden in a filed i see 2 birds... what hit me was the red legs...  then i caught a split second glimpse of there bodies , all black , i see no white on them , then after breaking my neck trying to study them more, we had passed them...  ...they were the size of a moorhen i would say , but after looking in my guide book , nothing stood out , that had red legs..
any ideas please? 
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09-04-2011, 08:48 PM
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| | | Re: red legs....
Can only think of Choughs that are all black with red legs at present. Maybe more will come to mind in a while.
Oystercatchers can look all black from behind. They have very red legs.
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09-04-2011, 08:49 PM
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| | | Re: red legs....
Google Oystercatcher images.... apparently there's an all black variety (but I think the all black ones are NZ birds.....) Check it out anyway...
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09-04-2011, 09:04 PM
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| | | Re: red legs....
cheers troops, bigdave60dog good shot on the chough but it was a def moorhen shape as well , im thinkn the sun got to me head even though it was 7am ....
Farplace.. oystercatcher was what i thought.. after lookin but i def could not see the white front.. i will have a google in a bit. 
just had a look ... mmmm is all i can say , my dad wasnt driving very fast , but the beak, i can honestly say im not sure on the color......
an unknown for me i thinks..
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10-04-2011, 02:53 PM
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| | | Re: red legs....
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Originally Posted by Farplace  Google Oystercatcher images.... apparently there's an all black variety (but I think the all black ones are NZ birds.....) Check it out anyway... | The African Oystercatcher is also all black.
Silhouette, behaviour and call just the same as ours though.
Seen from the back and quickly I think one could easily think an European oystercatcher was just black; especially if the light was poor, or in shadow. |
10-04-2011, 03:16 PM
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| | | Re: red legs....
got shout hobjob, i seem to leave out bits and its not until someone mentions things , i rember that i should have put them in...
it was sunny and they were walking towards the road we were on, and it was early morning.Prehaps a couple of moorhens laid in the sun to long and burnt there legs... 
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11-04-2011, 09:36 AM
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| | | Re: red legs....
Is there such a thing as melanistic Red Legged Partridges?
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11-04-2011, 09:45 AM
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| | | Re: red legs....
Yes, but two in the same field next to each other, not sure 
If I had to pick, I'd go with Oystercatcher on this one. But maybe leave it as unknown, drive past the field again this week
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11-04-2011, 09:54 AM
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Seems to be "The only game in town " at present.
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